THAT SIR, is a might fine looking plaqueOriginally Posted by Chief_Airborne
On my wall...
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The shoe fits
Re: Where are the original jump wings you were awarded at jump school graduation?
THAT SIR, is a might fine looking plaqueOn my wall...
Paratrooper
Re: Where are the original jump wings you were awarded at jump school graduation?
Good question. I have no idea. Once I was blood winged with a star in the risers I kinda gave up caring. I wish I still had them though.
1. Look Before You Turn 2. Turn Right to Avoid Collisions 3. Lower Jumper has the Right of Way
Paratrooper
Re: Where are the original jump wings you were awarded at jump school graduation?
You're right about that. Very nice indeed.THAT SIR, is a might fine looking plaque
1. Look Before You Turn 2. Turn Right to Avoid Collisions 3. Lower Jumper has the Right of Way
Paratrooper
Re: Where are the original jump wings you were awarded at jump school graduation?
Had that been me, I would have drilled a small hole through the center of my original wings and added the mustard stain meself!!!!!
Paratrooper
Re: Where are the original jump wings you were awarded at jump school graduation?
Pinned on my 82nd Airborne Association cap.
I still keep them polished.
King of Battle
Re: Where are the original jump wings you were awarded at jump school graduation?
I found them on a small plaque.
A 3/319th AFAR & HSB 3/319th AFAR '95-'99
Paratrooper
Re: Where are the original jump wings you were awarded at jump school graduation?
My originals were the clasp type pinned on the DZ by Gen Westmoreland. I think I threw them away when I got the pin on type.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."- John Stuart Mill
Paratrooper
Re: Where are the original jump wings you were awarded at jump school graduation?
...my German ones are in the drawer of my desk, had to take them off the class-A when I upgraded to silver and then gold. The US ones are still on my class-A uniform which is unfortunately way to small now...
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Uwe
Paratrooper
Re: Where are the original jump wings you were awarded at jump school graduation?
I didn't take an issue pair. I had a Vietnam Vet that's a family friend who had two daughters pin me with his old wings. Wear them when I wear my dress uniform. My 1SG still gets on me for not having StaBrite every Pay Day Activities.
Paratrooper
Re: Where are the original jump wings you were awarded at jump school graduation?
Like many of you, I have them in a case awaiting the day I will pin them to my son. Couldn't wear them on the class A's. Everything had to be Sta-brite for the Artillery. Glad FISTers aren't in a Battery anymore!
"The God of War hates those who hesitate." - Euripides, 480-406 b.c.
"He who stays on the defensive does not make war, he endures it"
Field Marshal Colmar Baron von der Goltz, 1883
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Re: Where are the original jump wings you were awarded at jump school graduation?
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Pinned my originals on my son in November..I can tell you it was an outstanding experience!
"We deal in lead friend."...Steve McQueen,The Magnificent Seven 82d Abn Div: 1983-86
OIF: 2007-08
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Re: Where are the original jump wings you were awarded at jump school graduation?
Me too, not being the first Army vet in the family, but being the first paratrooper I can only hope that my son will carry on this new tradition. Unless of course he wants to be a doctor or something. I might give him a pass that way. Then I will have to find some other young deserving trooper.
Paratrooper
Re: Where are the original jump wings you were awarded at jump school graduation?
It took me a while to find them but lo and behold while sifting through Christmas decorations I finally located my original wings pinned to an old civilian hat I had buried in a box. I have removed them and put them on my new hat.
Curt S-1, HHC, 3/325th ABCT 91-93 - Blue Falcons! FACEBOOK
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Paratrooper
Re: Where are the original jump wings you were awarded at jump school graduation?
On my keychain right beside my original P38
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Re: Where are the original jump wings you were awarded at jump school graduation?
Mine are in a display case in my "I love myself" glass window display cabinet with my other Army stuff ............Waitn to be passed on to one of my Sons if they ever make that commitment one day......"Strike Hold!!"..
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