SPC Private RallyPoint Member1604868<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Also the mountain tab as well so that even if you leave an airborne assignment you keep your tab.Do you think the Airborne tab was ever thought as being a individual's tab skill identifier (instead of a unit tab)?2016-06-07T12:22:38-04:00SPC Private RallyPoint Member1604868<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Also the mountain tab as well so that even if you leave an airborne assignment you keep your tab.Do you think the Airborne tab was ever thought as being a individual's tab skill identifier (instead of a unit tab)?2016-06-07T12:22:38-04:002016-06-07T12:22:38-04:00LTC Yinon Weiss1604876<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The tab is a unit identifier, as it's part of the unit's patch. The badge is the individual skill identifier. You can have the tab but not the badge, or the badge and not the tab.Response by LTC Yinon Weiss made Jun 7 at 2016 12:24 PM2016-06-07T12:24:07-04:002016-06-07T12:24:07-04:00SPC Rory J. Mattheisen1604937<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>With the 101 changing to the "AIR ASSAULT" identifier 1 Jan 2017, a new beret following, and the culture in today's Army I believe the AIRBORNE, MOUNTAIN, and AIR ASSAULT identifiers will be "Tabs" within the next three years.Response by SPC Rory J. Mattheisen made Jun 7 at 2016 12:34 PM2016-06-07T12:34:03-04:002016-06-07T12:34:03-04:00CSM Michael Chavaree1604954<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Nah, I think maintaining it as a unit identification is appropriate, more patches and badges is not always better...Response by CSM Michael Chavaree made Jun 7 at 2016 12:36 PM2016-06-07T12:36:32-04:002016-06-07T12:36:32-04:00MSG Private RallyPoint Member1604960<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Since I have never worn the tab, and since I have not the badge....I actually never put much thought into it.Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 7 at 2016 12:37 PM2016-06-07T12:37:36-04:002016-06-07T12:37:36-04:00SSG Private RallyPoint Member1605250<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I feel as if more candy is too much. Keep it simple. Don't over complicate things.Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 7 at 2016 1:27 PM2016-06-07T13:27:56-04:002016-06-07T13:27:56-04:00SFC Everett Oliver1605323<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I've never been Airborne qualified yet I've worn the airborne patch in two different units.Response by SFC Everett Oliver made Jun 7 at 2016 1:44 PM2016-06-07T13:44:12-04:002016-06-07T13:44:12-04:00CW3 Private RallyPoint Member1605801<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Always been a unit identification, the parachute badge is the individual, I never wonder why not the tabResponse by CW3 Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 7 at 2016 3:36 PM2016-06-07T15:36:26-04:002016-06-07T15:36:26-04:00LTC George Tobias III1606183<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I think it should be a individual identifier like Ranger!Response by LTC George Tobias III made Jun 7 at 2016 5:16 PM2016-06-07T17:16:52-04:002016-06-07T17:16:52-04:00LTC Paul Labrador1606200<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Nope. Airborne and Mountain tabs were never individual skill identifiers.Response by LTC Paul Labrador made Jun 7 at 2016 5:22 PM2016-06-07T17:22:59-04:002016-06-07T17:22:59-04:00SSG John Erny1606347<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Your Wings are what set you apart from nasty legs. The only thing that would change that in MHOP is if an actual Airborne Infantry school were developed to train troops to a higher level and thus earn a tab. Not likely at all though. Still it would be a great way to keep the higher Airborne Standard.Response by SSG John Erny made Jun 7 at 2016 6:00 PM2016-06-07T18:00:59-04:002016-06-07T18:00:59-04:00TSgt Private RallyPoint Member1608124<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>They may have thought about doing that. However, the Ranger Tab, Sapper Tab, and so forth that you keep are earned through intense training. The airborne tab is for the unit to have the Airborne status that ensures their ranking on the JA-ATT OML. I am sure it is something similar for the Mountaineering Training.Response by TSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 8 at 2016 7:31 AM2016-06-08T07:31:09-04:002016-06-08T07:31:09-04:00SSG Leo Bell1608394<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It would be nice if you could keep them, but you must remember that not all personal in the airbourn units are airborne. So it would be right for them to keep there tab when they leave there unit. The only tabs your are allow to wear always is Special Forces, Ranger, and I think Sapper. Those are earned by really had training and have special units. The military personal that serve in these units do not wear these tabs. You have to be qualified to wear them.Response by SSG Leo Bell made Jun 8 at 2016 9:39 AM2016-06-08T09:39:04-04:002016-06-08T09:39:04-04:00PVT Ryan P. Quirk1625370<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The Tab use to be an individual identifier back in WW2. The tab went with you. But your identifier was the sliver wings.. Then the tab later on it only stayed with the airborne unit patch.Response by PVT Ryan P. Quirk made Jun 13 at 2016 4:05 PM2016-06-13T16:05:14-04:002016-06-13T16:05:14-04:00SSG Edward Tilton7044801<div class="images-v2-count-1"><div class="content-picture image-v2-number-1" id="image-604838"> <div class="social_icons social-buttons-on-image">
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