DZ Flash

A DZ Flash is a badge or patch worn by the Airborne forces of the British Army and all squadrons of the RAF Regiment.^[1] DZ stands for 'drop zone'. In RAF Regiment use, these flashes distinguish between squadrons, although within the RAF Regiment only II Squadron has a parachute capability.

Army

Current

Parachute Regiment
HQ, Parachute Regiment	1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment	2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment	3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment	4th Battalion, Parachute Regiment
		Depot, Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces
Other units of the 16th Air Assault Brigade
7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery	23 Parachute Engineer Regiment	13 Air Assault Regiment Royal Logistics Corps	16 Medical Regiment	EOD Troop 33 Regiment Royal Engineers
	216 Parachute Signals Squadron	7th Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers	D Squadron, Household Cavalry Regiment	156 Provost Company Royal Military Police
			Brigade Pathfinder Platoon	Brigade HQ

Obsolete

10th Battalion, Parachute Regiment	15th Battalion, Parachute Regiment		1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment	9 Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers

RAF Regiment

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  No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment

References

1. "AP 1358, CHAP 7" (PDF). 0733. RAF Regiment. Members of the RAF Regiment wear distinguished arm badges and shoulder slides as follows:
   a. RAF Regiment Shoulder Badge.
   b. Shoulder/Chest Epaulette Rank Slides
   c. Sqn Drop Zone (DZ) Patches. Sqn DZ patches may be worn on the CS 95 jacket with the sqn cdrs permission. They are to be OG with the centrepiece of the authorised Sqn badge embroidered in black, coloured versions are not to be worn. They are worn centrally mid-way up the right sleeve of the field jacket (or parachute smock if appropriate), positioned below parachutist wings if awarded. RAF Regt personnel not serving on sqns may wear the RAF Regt DZ patch with embroidered crossed rifles and astral crown instead. line feed character in |quote= at position 115 (help)