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Date Posted: 11:45:16 11/06/12 Tue
Author: Tom Gilbert
Subject: Air Assault Badge

I guess there are a lot of us who feel the same about wearing a badge that we should just be entited to proudly wear. Served with the Big Red One at Bear Cat and then Di An in 1966. Before this so called Air Assault school we flew in to both cold and hot LZ's, mostly on Huey's but also in Chinooks, Caribous, and C-123's. I've tried twice to go through my Senators and Congressmen to try and get authorization to wear the Air Assault Badge. First try, Army HR told my Congressman that they considered going retro-active but thought the cost would be too much. The second attempt, the answer was that you needed to complete the Air Assault School training that started in 1974, most of us by then were out of the service. Our experiences helped write the training for the School. I wear the Badge anyway, authorized or not, but it would sure be nice if they recognized us for this feat and added it to our DD214's. Welcome home brothers. Alpha 2/16th 1st Infantry Division.

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