Lee Ragan Posted June 20, 2016 Share #226 Posted June 20, 2016 On the USAF transition Ike jacket: First of all the mans rank was Sergeant, NOT Sr. Airman. (That rank title didn't appear till the 1980's. ) The colored tabs worn on the shoulder straps were probably a marking for Tech. schools, or even for drill instructors who wore similar markings in those days. Like Patches said above, they could have been for an honor guard or something like that. Back n those days bases and units often had special ways to designate certain things and finding any kind of regs to authorize such cases are hard to come by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Boban Posted June 20, 2016 Share #227 Posted June 20, 2016 Thank you Patches & Lee Ragan for your responses. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 22, 2017 Share #228 Posted November 22, 2017 A Officer of the 2nd Armd Div in 45 (Anyone know who he is? can't seem to make out his Grade.), with his loops as tabs on his Tanker Jacket, sewn right across the shoulders for lack of shoulder loops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 22, 2017 Share #229 Posted November 22, 2017 And one more with Green Leadership Tabs on a Tanker Jacket, this time a Major or Lieutenant Colonel of the Railsplitter Div in 45. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted November 22, 2017 Share #230 Posted November 22, 2017 Great photo He appears to be a Major or Lt.Col I would think the 2nd Armored had a unit history he would be shown? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 22, 2017 Share #231 Posted November 22, 2017 84 loops.jpgifdndex.jpg And one more with Green Leadership Tabs on a Tanker Jacket, this time a Major or Lieutenant Colonel of the Railsplitter Div in 45. Noticed that the officer behind him has them in the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 28, 2017 Share #232 Posted November 28, 2017 Great photo He appears to be a Major or Lt.Col I would think the 2nd Armored had a unit history he would be shown? Got a tip from my mostly retired confidential informant . Yes he's Brigadier General Sidney R. Hinds CO of CCB 2nd Armd Div. http://apps.westpointaog.org/Memorials/Article/6791/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CNY Militaria Posted November 28, 2017 Share #233 Posted November 28, 2017 Ah yes, Brig. Gen. Sidney Hinds! FOUR time Silver Star recipient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted November 28, 2017 Share #234 Posted November 28, 2017 Got a tip from my mostly retired confidential informant . Yes he's Brigadier General Sidney R. Hinds CO of CCB 2nd Armd Div. http://apps.westpointaog.org/Memorials/Article/6791/ Oh and his rank insignia on the shoulders, now that we know he's a Brig Gen, if we look closely, he's wearing cloth stars, probably started life as those embroidered type on Khaki twill and were trimmed to the contours of the star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted December 11, 2017 Share #235 Posted December 11, 2017 NCOs assigned to the U.S. Military Academy Preparatory School sometime in the late 60s/early 70s, so this would be before the regs were changed to no longer limit the leadership tabs to those serving in combat positions. I can't find the DUI on TIOH website but the school's website shows this DUI. I think it's the same one they are wearing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retired Army Noncom Posted December 15, 2017 Share #236 Posted December 15, 2017 BTW, in a somewhat related bit here, the army recently decided that ALL NCO's and officers will now wear the Leadership tabs, as all MOS's are considered 'combat leaders' in the current war. They were being worn by both officers and NCO's in a leadership position while I was in from 1965 to 1985....after 85 I don't know if or when they disappeared. I wore them from Feb 68 to Apr 85. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted January 2, 2018 Share #237 Posted January 2, 2018 More Infantry blue tabs worn by a drill instructor at the Infantry School Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 2, 2018 Share #238 Posted January 2, 2018 More Infantry blue tabs worn by a drill instructor at the Infantry School Holy Moly, Sean where did you get this image?, he was one of my Company Drill Sergeants at Ft Benning Jan-April 1980. Poe if I'm not mistaken, I recall he was a grunt in an Air Cav unit in Nam, this exact same photo would appear in our yearbook, but in Black and White, and I don't have the book anymore, basically gave up trying to find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12A54 Posted January 2, 2018 Share #239 Posted January 2, 2018 They were being worn by both officers and NCO's in a leadership position while I was in from 1965 to 1985....after 85 I don't know if or when they disappeared. I wore them from Feb 68 to Apr 85. We continued wearing green leadership tabs well into the 90s - mostly on the vertical single epaulette on the front of the gore-tex field jacket with rank insignia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 3, 2018 Share #240 Posted January 3, 2018 A officer of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment West Germany circa 1962-63. Curiously he wears no DIs on his Green Loops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retired Army Noncom Posted January 3, 2018 Share #241 Posted January 3, 2018 A officer of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment West Germany circa 1962-63. Curiously he wears no DIs on his Green Loops Is that a GCM on that young officer's chest? If it is, he's prior-enlisted. New OCS Lt newly assigned to the 11th ACR? Maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted January 3, 2018 Share #242 Posted January 3, 2018 Is that a GCM on that young officer's chest? If it is, he's prior-enlisted. New OCS Lt newly assigned to the 11th ACR? Maybe? Yes that's what I would think, as this is before the reintroduction of the National Defense Service Medal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted March 7, 2018 Share #243 Posted March 7, 2018 I'm not sure what this Transportation Corps officer is wearing. At first I just thought it was light colored leadership tabs but then I realized it was a longer slide on piece worn on his eppaulettes, kind of like the slide on rank worn currently worn on the Class B uniform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasonK Posted March 7, 2018 Share #244 Posted March 7, 2018 Unnamed Ike to a 1st Sgt with the 83rd ID/8th AD. Leadership stripes below both rank chevrons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted March 8, 2018 Share #245 Posted March 8, 2018 I'm not sure what this Transportation Corps officer is wearing. At first I just thought it was light colored leadership tabs but then I realized it was a longer slide on piece worn on his epaulets, kind of like the slide on rank worn currently worn on the Class B uniform He's wearing the Trans Center & School patch, (seeing a smigen of it). plus the Trans Center & School DI So I suspect it's some kind of school related loop in the colors of the TC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retired Army Noncom Posted March 8, 2018 Share #246 Posted March 8, 2018 He's wearing the Trans Center & School patch, (seeing a smigen of it). plus the Trans Center & School DI So I suspect it's some kind of school related loop in the colors of the TC. I agree, the regulation clearly stated "Green Leadership Tabs". In MOS schools they created their own. As a Drill Sgt for over 5 years, we did not wear any tabs. The Green Leadership tabs were for TO&E units only. When Ft Campbell closed down BCT, I was transferred to Ft Wood and a Drill in Cook School, I was there for four months before I finally got myself back on BCT duty. All I did was pass out mail, worse assignment I had. The Bn had created their own badge to wear on the pocket. I refused to wear it because it was not an approved device to wear on the uniform, plus it cost $5.00 and not as item of issue if it was approved. I was not a popular DS with the SGM and this helped my departure back to a real Drill Sgt assignment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDogMilitaria Posted March 9, 2018 Share #247 Posted March 9, 2018 my contribution to this thread, named Ike to a member of the 194th GIR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbinephalen Posted April 7, 2018 Share #248 Posted April 7, 2018 I had a few original wartime pics I thought I would add! Both 76th Division vets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbinephalen Posted April 7, 2018 Share #249 Posted April 7, 2018 Some examples in the collection! ID'd of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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