Proper Placement
of your patches
on your Rolling Thunder® Vest

 

If you take a look at the Vests of other Rolling thunder® Members including those of our National Leadership Folks
you won't see much of a pattern so far as patch placement goes.

In an effort to to give our TN3 Members a shot at having a uniform appearance
we're showing you a layout of what we would like to see.

 
Rolling Thunder Constitution, Rev. 11/4/06, Page 7, No. 10:
All membership patches will come from National.  Membership patches are the property of Rolling Thunder® National.

Patch # 1

Your American Flag

 

What ever form of it you put on your vest it absolutely goes over your heart.

Patch # 2

Your TN3 Chapter Patch

We prefer to see it located about 1" inch under your American Flag.

This 1" inch space is where your Name tag or I.D. Pin fits which can be for a standard name tag
you can have made up at any place that does engraving or it can be used for displaying
a President, Vice President, Treasurer, or Board Member pin, ect, ect.



1st choice

6" Strip Patch


2nd choice

"4 1/2" Strip Patch


3rd choice

 4" TN Strip Patch
TN3's Preferred

Patch #3

The Rolling Thunder® Strip patch

There are 3 options available of the Members Only Strip Patch

We prefer that you locate your strip patch on your right upper chest for two reasons.

The first is so people can easily see your a Rolling Thunder Member.
The 2nd reason is when you appear in photos from the front people can see your a Rolling Thunder member.

 


The 1st is 6" inches across
and is much to wide for most people's vests

$5.00
Members Only

 


The 2nd is 4.5" inches
and to wide for most peoples vests

$5.00
Members Only

 


TN3's Preferred

The 3rd is 4" inches
and is contained within an outline of Tennessee

$4.00
Members Only

Rolling Thunder Constitution, Rev. 11/4/06, Page 7, No. 12:
Any chapter of  Rolling Thunder® may have their chapter logo made into a patch for its members use only.  If the logo patch indicates any state or area or a specific part of a state or area, it will only be displayed on the front of the member's vest/jacket.  There will be nothing displayed on the back of the members vest/jacket that indiciates any specific state or specific are of said state.

Patch #4

Your  Rolling Thunder® Boot Patch

We'd Prefer to see Your Boot patch located on the lower right side of your vest.

It absolutely cannot be located on the back of your vest.

In the Motorcycle Club World @ M.C., it would defines a territory
which is something we are not permitted to do because we are not an MC.

A Rocker + Territory patch located on the back of a vest = an M.C.

Rolling Thunder Constitution, Rev. 11/4/06, Page 7, No. 11:
No chapter of Rolling Thunder® shall ever add the letters "MC" to their Rolling Thunder® back patch.  This organization is not and never will be a motorcycle club or organization.  If a chapter of Rolling Thunder® authorizes a chapter member (s) to wear any type of territorial patch on the back of their vest/jacket, they will be fined $500.00 for the first offense.  The second offense will result in the termination of the Chapter's charter.

Patch #5

Your Rolling Thunder® Eagle & Rocker Patch

Absolutely nothing can be be located between your Eagle and your Rocker Patch

We Prefer your E&R Patch set to be mounted high on your vest.

A few good reasons for this are:

When a person is riding a motorcycle like an Ultra Classic if the patch was mounted low on the vest it wouldn't be as visible.

When you have two riders on your motorcycle the passenger totally covers the lower part of the drivers vest.

Some people like it mounted lower so that their hair doesn't cover it over but in reality
most folks that ride scooters have their hair done up in a pony tail so it doesn't actually hamper our efforts for maximum visability.

Some people like it mounted lower so they can have a Veteran Patch or POW-MIA related patch above it.

Rolling Thunder Constitution, Rev. 11/4/06, Page 7, No. 11:
No chapter of Rolling Thunder® shall ever add the letters "MC" to their Rolling Thunder® back patch.  This organization is not and never will be a motorcycle club or organization.  If a chapter of Rolling Thunder® authorizes a chapter member (s) to wear any type of territorial patch on the back of their vest/jacket,
they will be fined $500.00 for the first offense.  The second offense will result in the termination of the Chapter's charter.
Rolling Thunder Constitution, Rev. 11/4/06, Page 7, No. 13:
The only patches to be displayed above the Rolling Thunder® rocker on the back of the members vest/jacket will be a Veteran Patch or POW-MIA related.
There will be no patches displayed in-between the Rolling Thunder® rocker and the eagle.
Rolling Thunder Constitution, Rev. 11/4/06, Page 8, No. 20:
No member shall wear any business name or organization name over or between the Rolling Thunder® Rocker and Eagle.
No member shall wear any state rocker or strip patch (of the United States) on the back of his/her vest.


The back
of one of our members vest is shown here as an example.

R.T. Members please help us out here by sending in pictures of your vests.

We would like to post other R.T. TN3 Members vest pictures
here so other people can have examples to go by in an effort
to make it easier for them when they are assembling their vests.

Rolling Thunder
Chapter 5 in Munci Indiana
has come out with an Iraq / Afghanistan Patch you can add to your Vest.

We're not sure if it's been approved by RT National yet
so you may want to check and see before you get one sewed on your vest / jacket

This patch and many like it about Jane Fonda can be found on just about every Veteran Vest you see.
Some outsiders see it as offensive but once they find out what it's about most will go buy their selfs one.


Most of the time you see it displayed in this upside down fashion
because it draws more attention to it.

 
While we're on the subject of offensive
In this last section please bear in mind that this is only advice and it's your vest,
were just passing along a hard learned embarrassing lesson here.

Something you want to think about before you sew a really kewl
possibly offensive to someone patch on your Rolling Thunder Vest is where your headed.

You will find that while your in our Rolling Thunder Organization one day sooner or later you will see yourself on CNN, FOX, CSPAN, ABC, CBS, or your local news station or paper as most of us have. When that happens you'll also find out that there is alot of people out there who don't share your sense of humor or at least they won't admit it.

When your out and about hanging with your buds at your local biker bar or motorcycle rally expressing your self it may look and be pretty kewl but the next thing you know your captured in a photo while escorting a Gold Star Mother in a heart felt moment in a ceremony with tears in your eyes in front of a few thousand people while your in Washington on Memorial Day weekend. We speak to Congressmen, Senators and Governors, children at local schools educating them about Veterans and POW/MIA issues. Were seen on National and local television standing in honor at one of our many KIA Soldiers Funeral Services. The list goes on and on.

A pretty good rule to go by is if you wouldn't mind
your 6 year old reading and reciting it back to your mother most folks won't mind it either.

An easy solution to the problem where you can have your cake and eat it to,
Carry along some black duct tape and prior to entering a sensitive situation simply temporarily cover it up.

 

Here are some examples of common patches we personally don't take offence with but others in the public can.

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