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![[Armed Forces Joint Service Flag (Jordan)]](../images/j/jo^jaf.gif)
1:2I was to Jordan in March 2000. In addition to the army flag there is a flag for the Jordan Armed Forces as a whole. It is similar to the army flag but has a combined services badge of crossed scimitars, anchor, and eagle, all surrounded by a wreath and ensigned with the Jordanian royal crown in proper colors. I saw this flag flying outside the General Headquarters in Amman and displayed in the office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where it was trimmed with a red and gold fringe and topped with a finial consisting of a crown atop a large ball.
Joseph McMillan, 04 Apr 2000
This flag is labelled in [Album des Pavillons 2001 "Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff."
Željko Heimer, 30 Mar 2002
![[Royal Maintenance Corps Flag (Jordan)]](../images/j/jo^rmc.gif)
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image by Marcus Schmöger, 19 Nov 2006
According to drawings on the website of the Royal Maintenance Corps, the flag of this unit seems to be a red-yellow-blue horizontal triband with the badge in the center. The badge shows a red flash surmounted by a rearing horse, all under a crown and surrounded by green wreath.
Marcus Schmöger, 19 Nov 2006
At the RJAF website there is a photograph of a ceremony involving the kissing of a pale-blue air force flag or colour. The fact that it does apparently not show the national flag in the canton leads me to believe this might be a colour rather than the Air Force flag that we already know (more or less).
At a recent parade several colours were shown. Most of them were dark red with some golden device; several others were of different colours, including one in pale blue (perhaps another Air Force colour).
Source: Peter Young, The Arab Legion (1972), Men-at-arms Series, Reading (Osprey)
Marcus Schmöger, 19 Nov 2006
A photo of a parade of the Jordanian military can be seen at the Hyperstealth website, with a whole slew of flags visible, though at some distance. The one in the first jeep is the national flag, the one to the far right is likely the war ensign, and some of the red ones are probably the army and joint-forces flags, but that still leaves ~15 (!) UFEs.
Eugene Ipavec, 04 Oct 2007
