Posted on May 31, 2014
Have you ever seen anyone wearing a Glider badge?
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SFC Gaynerd Strand. Retired from the 11th SFG(A) in 88? 89? He was in 82nd in 49? 50? and went through Glider training.
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Yes, it was during the 50th anniversary of D-Day back in '94. He was a spry young man who was in his mid seventies at the time
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Not after WWII, perhaps shortly after...no gliders in Korea or Vietnam as far as I know, so anyone wearing the badge would either be a (very young during War II) very long service veteran. I met a retired LTC with the glider badge, master parachutist, pilot and half a dozen sets of wings from other countries- he had wings from jumping with the FFL in the mid-60s... serious badass
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