USMC Helicopter Squadrons
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Excuse Me If I Don't Shake Hands Essential Personnel PVC Patch — CH-53 Humor from HMHT-302
When your hands are covered in CH-53 hydraulic fluid, a handshake is really more of a liability.
This morale patch from Marine Heavy Helicopter Training Squadron 302 (HMHT-302) captures the dark humor of being "essential personnel" whose hands are perpetually occupied — whether gripping collective sticks, torquing bolts on a CH-53, or covered in the various fluids that heavy helicopter maintenance demands. HMHT-302 trains the crews who fly and maintain the Marine Corps' CH-53 Super Stallion and King Stallion heavy-lift helicopters, and the culture within that community is as rugged and irreverent as the aircraft themselves. This patch celebrates the Marines who keep their hands busy keeping the heaviest helicopters in the Western world flying.
Perfect For: HMHT-302 personnel, CH-53 aircrew and maintainers, heavy-lift helicopter Marines, essential personnel with a sense of humor, and morale patch collectors.
Excuse the hands — they've been inside a CH-53 all day.
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