Posted on Jun 24, 2014
Can a Soldier keep an Airborne tab once the unit loses it?
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We are having a debate in our shop...
If a Soldier is deployed and awarded a combat patch that has an Airborne Tab above it, and after redeploying the unit losses the tab... does the Soldier keep the tab on the patch that is on his right shoulder?
If anyone can answer this and include where I can find this in writing, I would greatly appreciate it.
If a Soldier is deployed and awarded a combat patch that has an Airborne Tab above it, and after redeploying the unit losses the tab... does the Soldier keep the tab on the patch that is on his right shoulder?
If anyone can answer this and include where I can find this in writing, I would greatly appreciate it.
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What the arguement is, is that units were wearing an airborne tab above their patch and were not authorized to wear it. An ALARACT message came out in 2011 stating who was truly authorized to wear the airborne tab above their patch and who wasn't. You still see some patches with airborne tabs above them above them, even though they are not authorized and the arguement is that they had the tab before the message came out, but since that unit was never authorized to wear it, then it should come off.
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a snapshot from the institute of heraldry webpage. Now can someone perhaps explain to me why they would show the previous authorized airborne tab that they weren't actually authorized?
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1SG Mike Case
I am with you. If someone said to take off the airborne tab, I would ask for the proof that they were never authorized. I am not fighting you on that. I know MI units that had LRRS BN that were apart of the MI BDE, added airborne tabs to the unit patch and it wasn't authorized. Just like you showed on the 16th patch, they were authorized but now aren't and if you deployed when it was authorized, I would say wear it. Also, an email could be sent to the Army G-1 uniform SGM and they could probably answer the question better than I could.
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A Soldier isn't "awarded" the airborne tab. If deployed at a company level or above to a combat zone, you are authorized to wear your SSI, as your SSI-FWTS. This statement in and of itself says NOTHING about future authorization of the SSI (note, not the SSI-FWTS) not being authorized the airborne tab or what have you.
You'd be hard pressed to inform someone that they didn't earn ALL OF the patch they're wearing over something as simple as an Airborne Tab.
You'd be hard pressed to inform someone that they didn't earn ALL OF the patch they're wearing over something as simple as an Airborne Tab.
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