Shoulder patch Special Forces Mess with the Best Die like the Rest. Very good quality embroidery, suitable for sewing or pressing. 

Mess with the Best Die like the Rest - the saying has its roots associated with the US Army Special Forces, commonly known as the Green Berets in the late 1960s. The special forces community adopted it in the 1970s, and by the 1980s it was in fairly common usage. 

United States Army Special Forces, called Green Berets because of their distinctive headgear. They are special forces of the United States Army whose tasks include unconventional warfare, internal defense abroad, direct action, special reconnaissance, counterterrorism, information operations, and countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. 

Since their creation in 1952, Special Forces soldiers have operated in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, North Vietnam, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Colombia, Panama, Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo. They participated in fighting in the First Gulf War, Afghanistan, Iraq, Philippines , Syria, Yemen, among others.