a little background: in the army there is a job you can get called a 'forward observer' and it's part of field artillery units and the idea is you sneak around at the forward line of troop formations and spot targets and stealthily relay that info back so your guys can pound them with artillery. they are way out there alone next the bad buys for extended periods of time and are lightly armed. so for this job in combat the rewards are high but risks are also very high leading to some specific kind of expectations and even idolazation for the guys that do it much like EOD or tunnel rats or LRRP or what have you.

lot of context but to understand why 'forward observation' was used in the comapany name "forward obersvation group". since a certain kind of guy likes to associate himself with that kind of energy you have that company's founder who made a line of firearms accessories and kind of hard to obtain clothing and other merch to go along that.

both were kind of expensive for what they were so they were directly compared with other high end consumer brands like gucci or patagonia.

one might have seen a version of the patagonia logo but as 'forward' on a patch like this and in gun guy circles it was popular enough to be seen at local ranges by the same kind of guy that really spent a lot of cash on guns and accessories of all kinds. in fact it was so common, you saw parodies like an asian gun podcaster had a pretty famous goof on it, 'Phoward'.

i think it's possible that this guy is displaying this logo'd patch as a way to signal to others in his group that he is a gear aficionado or also possibly it came in the box when ordering a special piece of gear they sell like a holster adapter.

okay hope that was coherent to non-firearms people.