Have you ever seen anyone wearing a Glider badge?

My 1sgt hq company 20th group 1988
Ft. McClellan Alabama
He was one of those guys that signed up at 15 or 16 during World War II and made military career. Then went to the National Guard. That old man could smoke all of us at PT I never seen anybody that old that could run like that.
I remember the first time I saw his glider wings I couldn't figure out what they were after asking around I was told that he was a glider trained World War II

Meet a retired Air Force general that was a glider pilot during d day he'd retired early 70s and has since passed away

I met one. He was in his 60s when I was a kid in the late 70s. But that generation is now long gone.

Sure! But I was at 101 in 1987.

Although the USAF Academy still uses gliders on training Cadets in aviation there is no current rating in the Military for glider pilots. There are still gliders at the Academy airfield in Colorado Spring, CO that are used for this purpose.

I was at the PX at Ft. Bragg in 1962. I had a invitation to the Cuban Missle Crises. I saw one old guy, he had an 11th Abn Div Combat Patch. I didn't talk to him, he looked like he might bite. In 64-65 the 11th Air Aslt was at Ft. Benning. They were merged into 1st Cav in July 65.

No

NEVER

No

Yeah I'm a lifetime member of the 82nd airborne division association. Some of the guys who fought in WWII had them. Most are all dead now though.