Posted on May 31, 2014
Have you ever seen anyone wearing a Glider badge?
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Have you ever seen anyone wearing a Glider badge? How many Soldiers could you ask before receiving the correct answer without the help of a search engine?
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Posted 10 y ago
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My great uncle is believed to be the youngest glider pilot during WWII the stories he has are crazy
http://www.ww2gp.org/contributors/PeteBuckleyProfile.html
http://www.ww2gp.org/contributors/PeteBuckleyProfile.html
NWWIIGPA - George Pete Buckley Profile
Pete enlisted at age sixteen on December 10th 1941 the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese. He did not have his mother's permission and his telling her of his deed did not go well. He reported to Fort Devens on the 24th of December, and then was assigned to Keesler Field for basic training. He volunteered for the Glider Program the first week in June 1942.
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I saw an Air Force Colonel in 1985 at Fort Devens, MA with a Glider Badge. He had served in every branch but the Navy. He was a prior service infantryman.
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The only Glider Badge I've ever seen worn was on the chest of a 92 year old WW2 Army vet as he was lying in state in his original WW2 Army uniform prior to his body being transported to Arlington for burial.
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Only Soldiers from 325 glider Infantry Reg, 327 Glider Infantry Reg, and 319 Glider Field Artillery Battalion during the WWII are authorized the wear of the Badge. I do know for fact that 327 Infantry Reg (Bastogne) 101st ABN DIV keep the tradition alive within the BDE HQ and the GEN Pratt Museum in Fort Campbell.
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SFC Michael Hasbun
AR 600-8-22
8–32. Glider Badge (rescinded)
Effective 3 May 1961, the Glider Badge is no longer awarded. An individual who was awarded the badge upon
satisfying then current eligibility requirements may continue to wear the badge. Further, it may be awarded retroactively
upon application to USAHRC, AHRC–PDO–PA, 200 Stovall Street, Alexandria, VA 22332–0471, when it can
be established by means of sufficient documentation that the proficiency tests then prescribed were satisfactorily
completed while assigned or attached to an airborne unit or to the Airborne Department of the Infantry School, or by
participation in at least one combat glider landing into enemy-held territory as a member of an organized force carrying
out an assigned tactical mission for which the unit was credited with an airborne assault landing by the theater
commander.
8–32. Glider Badge (rescinded)
Effective 3 May 1961, the Glider Badge is no longer awarded. An individual who was awarded the badge upon
satisfying then current eligibility requirements may continue to wear the badge. Further, it may be awarded retroactively
upon application to USAHRC, AHRC–PDO–PA, 200 Stovall Street, Alexandria, VA 22332–0471, when it can
be established by means of sufficient documentation that the proficiency tests then prescribed were satisfactorily
completed while assigned or attached to an airborne unit or to the Airborne Department of the Infantry School, or by
participation in at least one combat glider landing into enemy-held territory as a member of an organized force carrying
out an assigned tactical mission for which the unit was credited with an airborne assault landing by the theater
commander.
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SGT Bryon Sergent
I have never saw the badge, but while at the 101st Airborne Division in the late 80's and early 90's we wore the glider patch on our garrison caps. Was sewn on the right side.
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My great uncle was in a glider unit with the 101st during ww2. I was stationed at ft Bragg. I’m 99.9% certain they did away with glider units after ww2 because they were flying coffins held together with tent poles and vinyl like tarps
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I met one he was at a Veterans home had to look twice and still had to ask never heard of one before or since.
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I saw a few of them but very few. When I first went in in 1966 we still had a number of WWII vets hanging around but they were rapidly retiring. Some of them had served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam which I found pretty impressive.
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