I'm trying tot find a picture of the logo for USMC MOS Personnel Retrieval and Processing (PRP) Specialist, 0471. I know it has a M16 service rifle crossed with an E-tool overlaid with a triangular funeral flag, But I cant find a picture of it online anywhere. Can anyone help me out?
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You won't find it on-line under any official Marine Corps logos, patches, or flags. The description you made would only apply to an internal, non-official, sub-unit logo. The 0471 MOS falls under the flag of the Marine Force Service Support Group responsible for all logistics aspects on the battlefield including burial and reclaiming the dead and wounded (also where the combat medical field hospital is located). Pretty all sub-organizations within the FSSG has some sort of logo sign or internal banner that one of the troops designed.
Even though it would make sense from a historical perspective that Headquarters Marine Corps Historical Branch document these logos, they do not. Most of the time the logos are only posted within the sub-unit's office (e.g. on the wall - never on the uniform or on a flag that the unit marches with). In the Air Wing, large departments such as Aviation Supply or Aviation Maintenance, there are logo boards that direct people to the those departments. These boards are all unofficial and therefore not archived anywhere. The Commanding Officer of the Marine Air Groups have the option to authorize them or to have them taken down and put inside the office spaces.
If you have a Marine friend and they are close to an FSSG headquarters, ask them to stop by the G-4 and see if they have the image there. IF they do, ask him/her to make a photograph for you. This is pretty much the only way that you will get an image.
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