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With the advent of the Space Force, we had to develop insignia for them.

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We started off using normal textile procedures, but because of the intricacy of a lot of their designs,

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we weren’t able to do it in textiles. So, they asked us about PVC.

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Apparently in the Air Force-Space Force community, they have used PVC for morale patches and unofficial patches,

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things we’re not involved with. So we explored the technique of doing it and quickly found out

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it wasn’t even available in the United States. Most of it was made offshore.

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So a couple of our textile manufacturers went out and purchased the equipment and figured out how to do it.

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We have a comparison now. This is the Space Force headquarters patch, which is PVC,

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and then the U.S. Army star logo. You can actually see how much cleaner the detail is in the embroidery versus the PVC.

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Then we have the flags. The embroidered flag, again, if you look at the stars, they’re not real clean.

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But if you look at the PVC, it’s very clean. The biggest difference is on the embroidered flag, you have to put a border on the flag.

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Well, we had the opportunity with the PVC flag to take that off and just use a color that matches the hook and loop material on the uniform

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so it just blends in and so all you see is the flag which is, in our opinion, the way it should be.