Posted on May 31, 2014
Have you ever seen anyone wearing a Glider badge?
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I did Navy and Army!
Do they even have gliders anymore?
I remember from history the ones in WW II
Do they even have gliders anymore?
I remember from history the ones in WW II
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The last glider school in the Army completed their training in the late 1940s.
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It's not an award it's a badge. It is no longer issued (was WWII and post era badge, and it is considered a Group 4 badge along with parachutist and air assault), but it is in AR 670-1 for the surviving veterans who are authorized wear. But there may be just a handful of those bad-asses left
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I have seen a WWII vet wearing the Glider Badge. Thank GOD we dont do that anymore!
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I joined the Army Reserve in 1980. We had a old tough Battalion CSM who joined the 82nd Airborne during the Korean War - but didn't go to Korea. He had Master Parachutist wings and a Glider Badge. He's is the only person I ever met with one. (I also met, on separate occasions, two paratroopers who jumped into Normandy - one from the 82nd and the other from the 101st. How cool is that?!)
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I have read that the old WWII era glider wings (with the G on the shield) is still currently awarded to Air Force Academy cadets who are glider pilots at that institution. I don’t believe they are worn after commissioning though. I have a set of my grandfathers, who was almost through flight school when WWII ended.
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