seanmc1114 Posted October 4 Share #7076 Posted October 4 Signal Corps officer of the 3rd Armored Division Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 4 Share #7077 Posted October 4 Cameraman of the First Army, probably somewhere in France after D-Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 4 Share #7078 Posted October 4 General Headquarters Reserve SSI worn by an Armored Infantry officer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 4 Share #7079 Posted October 4 Col. Jimmie Leach, commander of the 11th Armored Cavalry in Vietnam from April–December 1969. Note he is also wearing the pocket patch of the 5th ARVN Division which was aligned with the 11th ACR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atb Posted October 4 Share #7080 Posted October 4 4 hours ago, seanmc1114 said: General Headquarters Reserve SSI worn by an Armored Infantry officer That Branch of Service insignia is Tank Infantry. While obsolete, it was worn by some armor soldiers until It was replaced by the Armored Force insignia in 1941. Until the Armored Force was created, there was no separate armor branch and tanks were part of the infantry branch. The soldiers of WW2 armored infantry battalions were to wear infantry Branch of Service insignia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 4 Share #7081 Posted October 4 I found this one on the U.S. Army Pacific Facebook page and almost overlooked it. The soldier is wearing a 25th Infantry Division SSI with a "HELIBORNE" tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 4 Share #7082 Posted October 4 8th Military Police Brigade with ARCTIC tab. This picture was posted in 2023 on the U.S. Army Pacific's Facebook page. The ARCTIC tab was originally created as an individual skill tab earned by those who graduated from the Cold Weather Orientation Course or Cold Weather Leadership Course held at the Northern Warfare Training Center and was authorized for wear on the Army Combat Uniform and Army Service Uniform by U.S. Army Pacific while assigned to any of its units while in its area of responsibility. On 25 April 2022, the G-1 of the U.S. Army authorized the wear of the ARCTIC tab by soldiers assigned to organizations in Alaska as a temporary wear tab with specific SSIs, above any already designed unit tabs and below individual tabs. As the 8th MP Brigade is located in Hawaii, it would seem this soldier would have earned the ARCTIC tab as an individual award prior to 2022 and is still wearing it as such even after it was revamped to to indicate an organizational identification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 4 Share #7083 Posted October 4 196th Infantry Brigade with ARCTIC tab. Probably the same explanation described in previous post. It's interesting that the same tab can be both an individual skill award and unit designator, depending on the circumstances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 5 Share #7084 Posted October 5 Speaking of the 196th Infantry Brigade, here's a full color one being worn in 1972, In Country Made by the looks of it, at this time the brigade is Separate again, no longer in the Americal Division, the Americal is inactivated November 1971, The color patch seems to have been worn again in the 1972 period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 6 Share #7085 Posted October 6 On 10/5/2024 at 1:24 AM, patches said: Speaking of the 196th Infantry Brigade, here's a full color one being worn in 1972, In Country Made by the looks of it, at this time the brigade is Separate again, no longer in the Americal Division, the Americal is inactivated November 1971, The color patch seems to have been worn again in the 1972 period. Artillery battery commander (Battery C 3rd Battalion 82nd Artillery) of the 196th Infantry Brigade in 1972. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JrBfloNY Posted October 6 Share #7086 Posted October 6 On 11/17/2013 at 5:04 PM, vzemke said: MG Lionel McGarr, Commander of the 7th Infantry Division in Korea, 1954. He was also the CO of the 30th INF Regt, 3rd ID throughout WWII and later went on to Command MAAG Vietnam. Is that an all red Korean War type 7th ID SSI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 7 Share #7087 Posted October 7 NATO Central Army Group/Allied Land Forces, Central Europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 7 Share #7088 Posted October 7 George Pullen, U.S. Army combat journalist, with the 25th Infantry Division - September 1967. Note the U.S. Army tape. "Bao Chi" is Vietnamese for media or press. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 7 Share #7089 Posted October 7 Instructor at the Basic Airborne Course at Fort Benning, Georgia wearing the Infantry School SSI with AIRBORNE tab as well as the oval for the 1st Battalion 507th Infantry on her black cap. But notice she is also wearing a full color metal Infantry School device on her pocket hanger. What was the purpose of wearing both the SSI and pocket hanger at the same time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8 Share #7090 Posted October 8 Armored Forces. "MARCH 12, 1945: Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler, 37th Infantry Division, receives a loving cup from Mr. Earl Carroll, a former prisoner of the Japanese military at Santo Tomas University. The cups were presented on behalf of the internees to the units that liberated the prisoners during the Battle of Manila the previous month. To the left of Maj. Gen. Beightler are representatives of the 1st Cavalry Division and 44th Tank Battalion." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8 Share #7091 Posted October 8 32nd Infantry Division. Col. W.T. Mollison, Commanding officer, 126th Infantry. Weis, Germany. Sayn, Germany. December 31, 1918, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8 Share #7092 Posted October 8 193rd Infantry Brigade with AIRBORNE tab. A member of Company A, 3rd Battalion, 5th Infantry assists a soldier of Panama National Guard with his parachute prior to airborne assault during joint U.S./ Panamanian exercise, Rio Hato Military Reservation, Panama - January 1979. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8 Share #7093 Posted October 8 Recent graduates of the Ranger Course at Fort Moore, Georgia from this summer sporting a variety of full color SSI. In the first photo we see the 25th Infantry Division, 18th Field Artillery Brigade, 173rd Airborne Brigade, 10th Mountain Division and 2nd Infantry Division. In the second phot, we see the JFK Special Warfare Center, 4th Infantry Division and Armored Division in the background, and a couple of Ranger battalion scrolls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8 Share #7094 Posted October 8 Major General Monte L. Rone, Commandant of the Infantry School at Fort Moore, Georgia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8 Share #7095 Posted October 8 This photo of two soldiers wearing the old World War II 5307th Composite Group (Merrill's Marauders) SSI was posted on the U.S. Army Infantry School Facebook page on April 30, 2024. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8 Share #7096 Posted October 8 More photos from a Ranger Course graduation, this time in December 2023. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8 Share #7097 Posted October 8 U.S. Space Force graduates of the Ranger Course at Fort Moore, Georgia - December 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8 Share #7098 Posted October 8 25th Infantry Division soldier wearing his JUNGLE tab on his boonie cap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seanmc1114 Posted October 8 Share #7099 Posted October 8 A father and his two sons in World War II Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted October 9 Share #7100 Posted October 9 11 hours ago, seanmc1114 said: This photo of two soldiers wearing the old World War II 5307th Composite Group (Merrill's Marauders) SSI was posted on the U.S. Army Infantry School Facebook page on April 30, 2024. Which unit wears this? The Ranger Department at Benning??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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