Agreed, we've gone a little overboard with it. At my level, I don't get to decide it, just police and enforce it. There seems to be an appetite for flashy things and/or patches and overdoing the "unique appearance" in both service dress and operational dress. It seems to be the 'in thing', and not just in the CAF.
Regardless of how 'overdone' our current operational dress is, we (Officers, Warrant/Petty Officers, Snr and Jnr NCOs) still have a duty to know, police and enforce the direction from higher and to set a high standard for those we lead to follow. Funny, though, the worst I've seen the patch police out since going AF was IMPACT ROTO 0 and...according to my Det HQ it was a fairly big focus of the ATF-I Commander. Wasn't he a fighter guy?
*IF YOU WEAR YOUR SQN HERALDIC CREST
OR PET THE CATS...ISIS WINS!!!*