Have you ever seen anyone wearing a Glider badge?

One in 1974

I know at the Air Force academy the young troops are indoctrinated into flying on gliders. Are they awarded and badges for that accomplishment?? Would be the only way I could see this as even remotely legit

A side story about gliders. My Army Reserve unit was activated for Desert Shield/Desert Storm. My aviation section was transformed into the range committee and after we had trained all of the troops that came to Fort Campbell. About April,1991 they got assigned to help remodel the Don Pratt Museum. One afternoon I stopped by to check on them. There is a glider in the Museum that you can walk into and see the interior. We needed to move it and the glider was already on a movable platform. It took twenty of us to move it to the new location. The staff didn't want to use mechanical equipment to move it because of the location so it was done the old fashion way. Manpower. :-) BTW my guys got the project ahead of schedule because of the guys was in the construction business. Saved the government money. :-)

Never seen one didn’t know you could still get one

Yes, my airborne instructor in Germany wore a gliders badge.

I have! Airborne AL, in the Fort Huachuca area. He was a member of the 11th Airborne Division in WWII. I met him while participating in the 2017 Veterans Day parade in Sierra Vista. Surprisingly, out of the other older veterans, he was the only one still able to walk on his own. The van pulled up and he hopped out of the back like it was nothing, looking sharp in his uniform.

That said, he had nothing but horrific things to say about the gliders and the fates he witnessed them meet. . .

I've see n a lot of them. And Paraglider badges, also. Not the cap badge, a glider superimposed on a parachute badge. But, the men wearing them had all served in World War Two. Last man I saw was CSM Stanley Kuzminski that had one. He is now DZ party in the sky.

Yes. When I joined the U.S. Army Reserve, 425th Transportation Command (MT), in 1971, our commanding officer wore one. He had been a glider pilot on D-Day.

I believe they quit awarding that badge shortly after World War II since that is the last time gliders were used. Anyone who earned it would be in their 80’s or older.

There may be lots of Air force officers with them. It's taught at the academy . But we now refer to it as Soaring . :-)