Have you ever seen anyone wearing a Glider badge?

Don't see the badge being worn by anyone in this photo?

My grandfather had a glider badge from WWII

My great uncle served in L Co. 325th Glider Infantry, 82nd Abn DIV, Ardennes, Mortar Section, so yes, this is very real and he was Damn proud of his wings too!

Obsolete for most younger troops to understand unless they knew someone prior or researched actual history.

I Have Never Seen One But They Did Exist In WW2 Before They Combined The Glider And Airborne Patches In To One. Watch Saving Private Ryan When They Are Having The Conversation With The Glider Pilot I Believe He Is Wearing One

Yes, the father of one of the troopers in my jump class (1971) retired Army showed up in greens to pin his son's wings on him. He was wearing a Glider Badge. I think I was one of the few that recognized it because my Dad was a WWII paratrooper.

I am now 93 years old and for the past 25 years running a free transition service for Military Engineers

I have seen the glider badge on a uniform once. My Grandfather's. He was in WW2 and had the badge on the only picture of him in uniform I had seen. I asked him about it once and he really didn't reply. I wish I could have had the presence of mind when I was younger to ask again before he passed away.

Who the hell knows what he’s pining on that soldier? He pining something onto his lapel, but I can’t see it and non of you can either. Two of the others have something gold pinned to their lapels, but I have no idea of what it is. What’s the background to this story?

The only glider badges I've ever seen, were worn by Veterans of the D-Day invasion who flew in behind enemy lines in those things that had the aerodynamics of a falling rock. As far as I know, no one in this day and age is entitled to wear one of those.

I met a man with a Glider Badge at the 82 museum in the early 1980s and he was fairly old then. Great old glider rider, I wish I could remember his name.