Can I wear my Airborne and Air-Assault badges while in basic training?

You should wear them and remember what those schools taught you to be.

Chances are that the Training Cadre already know of your awards so were I in your situation I would wear them proudly as you earned them.

The short answer is “Yes.” You earned them, you may wear them. Being prior service, I’d carry a copy of your last ERB and/or a copy of the orders as your new one won’t automatically have them in there, and this would help avoid questions. And as I’ve seen others comment, I’d recommend wearing them. Take the opportunity to answer questions of the new privates who haven’t seen them before or are otherwise unwilling to ask the Drill Sergeants about them.

The idea of keeping a low profile isn’t gonna happen because you’re going as a SPC. They’ll automatically know you either have a college degree and are going OCS after basic, or you’re prior service. So wear them.

F-it. Do it. As long as you have orders

Why do you want to stick out?!?

Wear them, you earned them! If you have a combat patch....where that too. You are going to take crap from the Drill Sergeants, but deep down inside, they will respect you for it!! It will also show the new Soldiers to the Army that there is someone they can lean on for advice and support as they navigate their new life in the Army....I assume you want to be an NCO one day, so start early with helping to mold these young recruits with a positive impression; letting them know they made the right choice in an Army Career. It's always the first impressions that set the tone for whether or not a Soldier will stay beyond their first team of enlistment....you will be one of their first impressions, make it a good one! And tell them why you decided to return to the Army after getting out, it will give them something to think about when their re-enlistment time comes!

Wear them, you earned them! If you have a combat patch....where that too. You are going to take crap from the Drill Sergeants, but deep down inside, they will respect you for it!! It will also show the new Soldiers to the Army that there is someone they can lean on for advice and support as they navigate their new life in the Army....I assume you want to be an NCO one day, so start early with helping to mold these young recruits with a positive impression; letting them know they made the right choice in an Army Career. It's always the first impressions that set the tone for whether or not a Soldier will stay beyond their first team of enlistment....you will be one of their first impressions, make it a good one! And tell them why you decided to return to the Army after getting out, it will give them something to think about when their re-enlistment time comes!

I say wear them proudly. You earned them. When I was in OSUT, we had a prior service guy who had earned his EIB. He didn’t wear it at first but, when the Drill Sergeants found out he was authorized, they convinced him to put it on. I think they actually slacked up on him after that.

No because you are not allowed to have anything on your uniform in basic training

You earned them so they are in your records you would actually be out of uniform if you didn’t wear them. Besides I have seen the new Army’s basic you don’t have to keep a low profile. You have two badges that I guarantee are harder to earn than BCT have fun