Green Combat Leader stripe

[Timberwolf]

 

Troy (AKA USMC-RECON0321) was kind enough to let me use this great photo for the thread. Photo of Col. Ola A. Nelson commander of the 24th AAA Group pictured Gen. Eisenhower. A great shot in general, but a shows a non-infantry member using combat leader stripes. The original posting can be found here.

[seanmc1114]

1 Lt. Melvin Nix as a TAC officer of the California Military Academy mid-1970's wearing Infantry branch insignia signifying the 160th Infantry Regiment of the 40th Infantry Division. However, he is wearing leadership tabs that appear to me to be Infantry blue with the DUI of the California Military Academy embroidered on them similar to the KOREA tabs posted earlier in this topic. Also note his ribbons indicate former enlisted service with the Marine Corps and he is wearing Marine Corps shooting badges as well as the Army Expert Badge and his two Vietnamese unit awards are the smaller size normally worn among other ribbons by the Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force.

[seanmc1114]

Green leadership tabs and DUI's worn on the eppaulettes of a modified OG-107 utility shirt by the commanding general of the 6th Cavalry Brigade mid to late-70's. Also note the Civil War era cavalry style belt buckles.

[patches]

1 Lt. Melvin Nix as a TAC officer of the California Military Academy mid-1970's wearing Infantry branch insignia signifying the 160th Infantry Regiment of the 40th Infantry Division. However, he is wearing leadership tabs that appear to me to be Infantry blue with the DUI of the California Military Academy embroidered on them similar to the KOREA tabs posted earlier in this topic. Also note his ribbons indicate former enlisted service with the Marine Corps and he is wearing Marine Corps shooting badges as well as the Army Expert Badge and his two Vietnamese unit awards are the smaller size normally worn among other ribbons by the Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force.

Here you go Sean, he was indeed in the Corps, an EM, must of went to University after his service, and came back on a commission, this time chossing the Army.

 

Vietnam Veterans Database

Name: NIX MELVIN R

Branch: MARINE CORPS

Rate: E05

Rank: SERGEANT

MOS: 0331 MOS Title: Machine gunner

Entered: 660201

Discharged: 700201

Service Number:

State: CALIFORNIA

Race: CAUCASIAN

[patches]

Must be this DI he's wearing, the 6th Air Cav Bde NCBU DI.

 

[Lee Ragan]

Those oval US belt buckles are not "cavalry", style. Those were worn by privates of Infantry or any soldier of that rank regardless of branch if equipped as an infantryman. They were worn only by enlisted men in the mid 1800's.

[seanmc1114]

Here's a Signal Corps sergeant of the 125th Signal Battalion wearing leadership tabs mid-70's.

[seanmc1114]

Here is Major General George S. Eckhardt of the Air defense Command wearing leadership tabs

[m60a1d66]

Here is a 4th Armored Division soldier, Chester B. Grygar, who has the Green Combat Leader Stripe sewn on his Ike Jacket.

[m60a1d66]

Right Side of Chester B. Grygar's Ike Jacket

 

[m60a1d66]

Close up of the Distinguished Unit Citation.

 

[seanmc1114]

Here is an unusual variation of the green leadership tab worn by Lt. Gen. Hank Emerson. Rather than sliding over the shoulder strap, they appear to be patches of green cloth sewn onto the top of the strap with a black embroidered edge on all four sides to match the general's stars which also appear to be embroidered.

[patches]

Here is an unusual variation of the green leadership tab worn by Lt. Gen. Hank Emerson. Rather than sliding over the shoulder strap, they appear to be patches of green cloth sewn onto the top of the strap with a black embroidered edge on all four sides to match the general's stars which also appear to be embroidered.

He's with Yankee great Joe DiMaggio by the way. I wonder whats the deal with the Ankh/Cross Emerson's wearing on the pocket flap?

[seanmc1114]

Unknown Major General in Berlin during the Berlin Crisis - 1961 - wearing oversized leadership tabs

[jguy1986]

Here's one I picked up a few years ago. It originally showed up at an auction not too far away; I couldn't make it due to work, but a week later it showed up on eBay. The auction photos showed it stripped of all original WWII era insignia and made to look like a fashion uniform with later-made insignia, but I recognized those leadership stripes as something that was worn only during WWII. No name, but I tracked down the laundry code and after some sleuthing I managed to obtain a copy of a discharge from a local records office to a member of the Battery C, 546th Field Artillery Battalion. As a FA unit seems most likely for the XXII Corps patch, I've restored the jacket according to his discharge.

 

-- Jon

 

[seanmc1114]

Here's an Infantry PFC wearing leadership tabs. Must have been a team leader.

PFC.Leadership Tabs.Infantry.bmp

[seanmc1114]

Leadership tabs worn on a 2nd pattern jungle jacket by a Military Intelligence NCO in Vietnam.

[patches]

Here's an Infantry PFC wearing leadership tabs. Must have been a team leader.

Very unusual, depending on when the photo was taken (post 1968) he could even of been a PV2.

[patches]

Trying to guess what insignia he seems to have on the loops, kinda looks like the 525th Military Intelligence Group right, if so looks like it's an embroidered loops?? He's also wearing a In Country unit pocket patch of some type, any ideas?

 

(note this is a REPRO Pocket Patch of this units DI, the one of the two decent images I could find)

[seanmc1114]

I'm assuming these are unauthorized although I think there was an aviation unit in Vietnam that marked its helicopters with the Playboy bunny logo. And they don't look green to me.

[Timberwolf]

Not a new pick up, but I haven't seen this tread updated in a while. Unidentified Sgt. from the 45th Division later transferring to the 103rd.

 

 

[Alex Boban]

Hi guys,

 

I just picked up this USAF 1946 dated transitional Ike jacket from the family of a senior airman who served in Japan in 1946/49. Do you have any ideas on those shoulder tabs? It looks like PH ribbons looped around the shoulder straps.

 

 

 

Alex

[Alex Boban]

Close up.

 

[patches]

@ Alex Boban, I shouldn't think these have anything to do with the PH obviously, more like a Honor Guard embellishment, or some kind of Department/Section embellishment. I would shop it over to this topic to get more views (A lot of USAF pros look in here, they might know) plus to post it in this topic.

 

http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/5846-post-wwii-50s-60s-us-air-force-uniform-photos/

[Lee Ragan]

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.