seanmc1114 Posted October 8, 2021 Share #5226 Posted October 8, 2021 A pre-World War II soldier of the 5th Infantry Regiment wearing a wool 9th Infantry Division SSI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8, 2021 Share #5227 Posted October 8, 2021 Cavalryman of the 7th Cavalry Regiment 1st Cavalry Division sometime between World War II and the Korean War Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8, 2021 Share #5228 Posted October 8, 2021 3rd Armored Division early in World War II. Note the double branch insignia with an "HQ" disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8, 2021 Share #5229 Posted October 8, 2021 Members of the 458th Transportation Company (PBR) in Vietnam. The unit was assigned to the 18th Military Police Brigade and wore that SSI along with a locally made pocket patch seen in the photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8, 2021 Share #5230 Posted October 8, 2021 163rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Note the wear of the OG-507 fatigues at this late date and the two different patterns of helmet covers. Photo caption reads: "Annual Training 1983 while serving as Chaplain to the 163rd Armored Cavalry Regiment of the Montana Army National Guard. Taking a break behind one of the tanks with Major General Jim Duffy, the Adjutant General (Commander) of the Montana National Guard." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8, 2021 Share #5231 Posted October 8, 2021 Ninth Air Force with AIRBORNE tab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted October 8, 2021 Share #5232 Posted October 8, 2021 3 hours ago, seanmc1114 said: Member of the Air Corps wearing the General Headquarters Reserve SSI pre-World War II Looks like the Hawaiian Department to me, 5th Composite Group, Hawaiian Air Force, 1930's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8, 2021 Share #5233 Posted October 8, 2021 14 minutes ago, Salvage Sailor said: Looks like the Hawaiian Department to me, 5th Composite Group, Hawaiian Air Force, 1930's At first I thought that too, but I didn't see the vertical gap at the top and bottom of the yellow symbol. But I'm sure you're right since the DUI matches up. Thanks for the correction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8, 2021 Share #5234 Posted October 8, 2021 2nd Service Command SSI worn in North Africa in 1943. The caption suggests this was January 1943 while President Roosevelt was attending the Casablanca Conference. Several months ago I posted the second picture of Brigadier General William Hale Wilbur wearing a Second Army SSI while receiving the Medal Of Honor from the President and Generals Marshall and Patton at the same conference. This leads me to believe that some officers brought their dress uniforms with them from their previous stateside assignments and just hadn't gotten around to replacing their old SSI with that of their new assignments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8, 2021 Share #5235 Posted October 8, 2021 Several photos of the first style VII Corps SSI worn by members of the 107th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaisance Squadron at the beginning of World War II. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8, 2021 Share #5236 Posted October 8, 2021 Western Defense Command SSI worn by a member of the 107th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaisance Squadron during World War II. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8, 2021 Share #5237 Posted October 8, 2021 Oversize wool 4th Infantry Division SSI with the letters IV in the center worn prior to World War II. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8, 2021 Share #5238 Posted October 8, 2021 Members of the 107th Armored Cavalry Regiment of the Ohio National Guard wearing unnumbered Armored triangles in 1950 and 1952 and the Second Army SSI in 1955. In the 1951 photo, it appears that at least two of the soldiers are wearing some kind of tab underneath the triangles. I have blown the picture up, but it is too blurry to read what they say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 9, 2021 Share #5239 Posted October 9, 2021 17 hours ago, seanmc1114 said: What exactly was the distinction between who wore combat stripes and noncombat stripes since the branches were classified into three categories - combat, combat support and combat service support? Signal Corps, along with Military Intelligence, Corps of Engineers and Chemical Corps, was a combat support branch. So which classification of rank insignia did it fall under? As its understood, when these came out in the year 1948 only men of the five Combat Branches wore the Blue on Yellow stripes, Infantry, Field Artillery, Cavalry (IE Armored Cavalry Regiments and some of those Constabulary people in Germany), Armored (IE Tanks) and the Coast Artillery (IE Anti Aircraft Artillery), all the rest, the Yellow on Blue, but as you seen Sean, like in Stanton's Uniforms of the Korean War, you'll see like a MP wearing the Combat one, or other sources were Combat Support or even in some cases Support people assigned to say a Infantry Regiment's HQ, or Battalion, or even Company Hq wear the Combat one, lets say like a Medic, guess they felt it was fine to do as they are serving permanently in a combat unit.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 9, 2021 Share #5240 Posted October 9, 2021 15 hours ago, seanmc1114 said: 3rd Armored Division early in World War II. Note the double branch insignia with an "HQ" disc. Wow never seen one of those big HQ on it, just under the unit number, post this one in the Collar Disc Sean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e19 Posted October 9, 2021 Share #5241 Posted October 9, 2021 On 4/4/2018 at 5:13 PM, seanmc1114 said: Member of the 19th Special Forces Group, probably early 1970s. Since he is wearing leadership tabs and jump wings, would it be safe to assume he is Special Forces qualified? Yet he is wearing an overseas cap with the Airborne patch rather than a green beret, either with a flash or just a candy stripe. Weird! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e19 Posted October 10, 2021 Share #5242 Posted October 10, 2021 On 3/27/2013 at 10:23 AM, seanmc1114 said: Airborne tab over 3rd Army SSI - not sure what unit this would be SF assigned the Psyop Warfare Center at Ft Bragg 53-62. Later became JFKSWCS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e19 Posted October 10, 2021 Share #5243 Posted October 10, 2021 58 minutes ago, e19 said: Weird! Unless it was prior to the approval of the beret. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger-1972 Posted October 10, 2021 Share #5244 Posted October 10, 2021 President John F. Kennedy authorized Special Forces soldiers to wear a rifle green beret in 1961, but SF soldiers had been wearing them off the books for the better part of the previous decade. If the photo is from the 1970s, then it was a decade after JFK's approval to wear the green beret. Could be that he was a non-SF qualified NCO assigned to the JFKSWC. Until one finishes the Q-course, they cannot wear the green beret. When I was at Ft Bragg in the 1970s and again in the 1980s, it was not uncommon to see folks wearing a maroon beret (airborne qualified) with a SF patch on their shoulder (because they were assigned to the SF community, but not SF qualified). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger-1972 Posted October 10, 2021 Share #5245 Posted October 10, 2021 In the mid-1970s, the 82nd wore a maroon beret -- but it was only locally authorized at that time. When a group of four of us were sent TDY to the FA School at Ft Sill, we were given a direct order by a colonel at the school to remove our berets and wear regular Army-authorized headgear. (I noticed that the colonel was not wearing jump wings.) We initially (politely) told him to pound sand - we were TDY and not assigned to Ft Sill. When the Ft Sill IG called the 82nd Abn DIVARTY commander (who was then-Colonel "Mad Max" Thurman) to complain, COL Thurman told the IG to pound sand -- his paratroopers definitely WERE going to wear the beret. In 1979, when General Bernard Rogers (CSA) rescinded the authority for the 82nd Abn Div to wear maroon berets, there were funeral ceremonies on the parade ground to bury those berets before donning the dreaded baseball caps. That only lasted until November 1980, when the maroon berets were authorized once again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 10, 2021 Share #5246 Posted October 10, 2021 10 minutes ago, Ranger-1972 said: President John F. Kennedy authorized Special Forces soldiers to wear a rifle green beret in 1961, but SF soldiers had been wearing them off the books for the better part of the previous decade. If the photo is from the 1970s, then it was a decade after JFK's approval to wear the green beret. Could be that he was a non-SF qualified NCO assigned to the JFKSWC. Until one finishes the Q-course, they cannot wear the green beret. When I was at Ft Bragg in the 1970s and again in the 1980s, it was not uncommon to see folks wearing a maroon beret (airborne qualified) with a SF patch on their shoulder (because they were assigned to the SF community, but not SF qualified). Here you go, a topic just on that, the Maroon Beret within Special Forces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 10, 2021 Share #5247 Posted October 10, 2021 Came across this shirt last night where the Texas National Guard 71st Airborne Brigade (Sep) patch with Tab is worn, since it is in full color along with Rank and BOS dates it befor the Summer of 1970, (Brigade formed 15 January 1968) Curious thing as you see, is there is no Jump Badge, the Tapes are the 67-68 Stamped type Subdued, and in the one close up where the U.S. ARMY Tape is seen, we do not see any ghosting of the cloth Jump Badge, unlikely it was a metal badge. So if a legit 71st Abn Bde shirt, they had some non jumpers in it???? Maybe is the 68-69-70 period when the brigade was actived??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEAR Posted October 10, 2021 Share #5248 Posted October 10, 2021 2 hours ago, Ranger-1972 said: President John F. Kennedy authorized Special Forces soldiers to wear a rifle green beret in 1961, but SF soldiers had been wearing them off the books for the better part of the previous decade. If the photo is from the 1970s, then it was a decade after JFK's approval to wear the green beret. Could be that he was a non-SF qualified NCO assigned to the JFKSWC. Until one finishes the Q-course, they cannot wear the green beret. When I was at Ft Bragg in the 1970s and again in the 1980s, it was not uncommon to see folks wearing a maroon beret (airborne qualified) with a SF patch on their shoulder (because they were assigned to the SF community, but not SF qualified). The maroon beret was authorized for wear in January 1973. I had just graduated BAC and was so excited to wear my new beret. However when I arrived at my duty station in Alaska, the commander did not authorize the beret so we wore the garrison cap with glider patch. Before 73 any personnel assigned to SF but not Q qualified, they wore the glider patch. After 73, they wore the maroon beret. Also for the SF, if soldiers had not been assigned to a SF Group they wore a short piece of patch under their crest on their berets which meant they were qualified but unassigned. These troops were referred to as "Candy Stripers". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e19 Posted October 10, 2021 Share #5249 Posted October 10, 2021 9 hours ago, BEAR said: The maroon beret was authorized for wear in January 1973. I had just graduated BAC and was so excited to wear my new beret. However when I arrived at my duty station in Alaska, the commander did not authorize the beret so we wore the garrison cap with glider patch. Before 73 any personnel assigned to SF but not Q qualified, they wore the glider patch. After 73, they wore the maroon beret. Also for the SF, if soldiers had not been assigned to a SF Group they wore a short piece of patch under their crest on their berets which meant they were qualified but unassigned. These troops were referred to as "Candy Stripers". Your source for the SF info is dead wrong. The soldier pictured above was assigned to 6th Group at Ft Bragg, was not SF qualified. The pic appears to be prior to fall of 1966. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steeve555 Posted October 10, 2021 Share #5250 Posted October 10, 2021 11 hours ago, patches said: Came across this shirt last night where the Texas National Guard 71st Airborne Brigade (Sep) patch with Tab is worn, since it is in full color along with Rank and BOS dates it befor the Summer of 1970, (Brigade formed 15 January 1968) Curious thing as you see, is there is no Jump Badge, the Tapes are the 67-68 Stamped type Subdued, and in the one close up where the U.S. ARMY Tape is seen, we do not see any ghosting of the cloth Jump Badge, unlikely it was a metal badge. So if a legit 71st Abn Bde shirt, they had some non jumpers in it???? Maybe is the 68-69-70 period when the brigade was actived??? The soldier was not airborne qualified. It was common especially in the Guard and Reserve to have NAPs in an airborne unit. The airborne tab is part of the patch not a signifier of qualification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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