JACIG Shoulder Flash 1991-
The Joint Arms Control Implementation Group is a tri-service organisation responsible for implementing national arms control policy on behalf of the UK Government. As such, it conducts arms control inspections abroad (mainly, but not exclusively, Former Warsaw Pact and Former Soviet Union), and escorts inbound inspections of British Forces in Germany, UK and Cyprus. This shoulder flash, worn on combat uniform was devised on the formation of the unit. When it was founded, JACIG was heavy with former BRIXMIS personnel (a legalised overt intelligence gathering group which toured East Germany tracking troop movements, mirrored by the Soviet SOXMIS organisation in the British Zone of Germany, later West Germany). These "military missions" operated from after WW2 until disbanded in 1990 after the unification of Germany); the BRIXMIS flash was identical except for "BRIXMIS" underneath the Union Jack. When they wanted a flash for the new unit, they put "JACIG" in Dymo tape over the "BRIXMIS", sent it to the chosen firm and said "this is what we want". The one shown is a later version, identical, but of better quality than the original issue, which, with frequent washing of uniform, became "fluffy" and eventually disintegrated.
JACIG Shoulder Flash 1991-
The Joint Arms Control Implementation Group is a tri-service organisation responsible for implementing national arms control policy on behalf of the UK Government. As such, it conducts arms control inspections abroad (mainly, but not exclusively, Former Warsaw Pact and Former Soviet Union), and escorts inbound inspections of British Forces in Germany, UK and Cyprus. This shoulder flash, worn on combat uniform was devised on the formation of the unit. When it was founded, JACIG was heavy with former BRIXMIS personnel (a legalised overt intelligence gathering group which toured East Germany tracking troop movements, mirrored by the Soviet SOXMIS organisation in the British Zone of Germany, later West Germany). These "military missions" operated from after WW2 until disbanded in 1990 after the unification of Germany); the BRIXMIS flash was identical except for "BRIXMIS" underneath the Union Jack. When they wanted a flash for the new unit, they put "JACIG" in Dymo tape over the "BRIXMIS", sent it to the chosen firm and said "this is what we want". The one shown is a later version, identical, but of better quality than the original issue, which, with frequent washing of uniform, became "fluffy" and eventually disintegrated.