Thanks for covering this. Regarding my foreign jump wings, I have Canadian and Afghan jump wings. I guess my Afghan jump wings are now a collector's item.
I'd like to be able to add a photo of the Royal Australian Navy wings I earned. That was after completing the Basic Para Course. I also completed the Military FreeFall course but Australia does not issue a separate free fall badge. The badge is Gold in colour and the wings are swept up sharply (like the SAS badge but with "thicker" wings") with the "usual" stylised parachute in the middle. Issued in full size and miniature (for Mess Undress) No cloth version exists.
Spain's wings are based on the Egyptian winged sun disk, taking form from antiquity, similar to America using the Hellenic thunderbolt for the airforce shield
My Royal Thai Airforce jump wings have gold wings & a silver parachute on black cloth. Instead of elephants, there is a white shield crossed with red & blue. A small pagoda in gold is on the chute. A gold star or star in wreath signal senior & master status.
The Marine Corps is very fickle when it comes to badges and insignia; except for the Air Wing. Many of us in the Recon community are Military Free Fall qualified but are not authorized to wear the badge,… but we can wear the basic Airborne badge though. Go figure? Something else: to earn your “Gold Jump Wings” you have to be on jump status, drawing jump pay when you make the five additional qualifying jumps. Some Marines could have 30, 40, 50 or more jumps, but can’t earn their Gold wings without that 90 day consecutive jump status.
Note you don’t have the UK ‘Lightbulb’ Parachute Badge for those qualified as Parachutist but do not serve with a Para Unit ie SPAG Submarine Parachute Assistance Group nor do you the UK SAS Wings Not complaining just for info
Great video, but I have one correction to offer: the German paratroopers in World War II first belonged to the Army, and were then transferred to Luftwaffe control. (opposite of what is mentioned in the video) Thanks for showing off all the other badges!
The El Salvador's is the national emblem, at the top of the emblem is a red roman liberty cap, same as many other latin American countries like Argentina or Cuba, America also uses this in it's grouping of national symbols, mostly independence era/George Washington
@@veteransmedalsworkshop-moa4376 sorry, I was wrong, the red liberty cap is inside the triangle, the top of the triangle is a banner straight up as if it was being carried
I earned a set of United Arab Emirates jump wings and Italian jump wings when I was a parachute Rigger back in the 90s. I have the UAE ones on my uniform.
Every Year around Christmas time us paratroopers on Ft. Bragg are invited to participate in a raffle called the “Toy Jump”. Every paratrooper brings one toy to pike field in exchange for a raffle ticket for a slot to go on a jump with foreign jumpmasters and receive one of these foreign wings that are shown in the video. The toys are donated to kids who are less fortunate around the holidays. On last years Toy Jump I received The German Jump wings and wear them proudly on my dress uniform.
Hello, great video 👍🏼At minute 12.36 I saw...you show 6 " vietnanese " AB Patches. The patch on the right low row with the puma under the canopy is a german Fallschirmjäger unitpatch. Its the patch from 3./FschJgBtl 261 ,Bundeswehr. No longer active. Disbanded in 2015 and merged into Fallschirmjägerregiment 26 🇩🇪🎗🫡
Correction - Your identification of the Australia metal version jump wings (which I wear on the right side of my U.S. Army Class A uniform) are actually the British metal version jump wings; and similarly, your identification of the British metal version jumps wings are actually the Australian jump wings.
To clarify the Canadian wings. The white enamal maple leaf (silver on cloth wings. The used to be achieved with a silver maple leaf pin device that would cover up the red leaf) denotes that the wearer served with/occupied an establishment position in an operational airborne/para unit or sub unit. ie, the wearer was considered a 'paratrooper' vice just another 'parachutist'. Essentially, if one was posted to a unit in which maroon berets were worn, they'd wear the wings with the white/silver leaf. One graduates the 3 week Basic Para Crse and is awarded wings with the red leaf. When posted to the Canadian Airborne Regt (up until its disbandment in 1995) or one of the subsequent para companies in the light infantry bns, the one reserve infantry unit that retains para status or the trg centre, one adopts the white/silver leaf. Prior to between 1942 and 1968 the wings were all cloth and larger than the current ones. The actual wings were a creamy off-white and the maple leaf was bronze on all with no difference made between basic jumpers and actual paratroopers. The Canadian Patrol Pathfinder Qual badge is very similar to the US one although our course is very different (extremely challenging - one of our toughest).
hey how's it going? I'm from Brazil and I haven't seen the Brazilian army, which dates back to the Second World War. where our first parachute General Roberto de Pessôa, 1st jump Fert Benning | GA USA - 22 Oct 1944. If you wish, I can send the Brazilian paratroopers patch.
@@veteransmedalsworkshop-moa4376 You spoke of El Salvador, Chile, which are South American countries, and they did not send troops to fight in the Second World War. Brazil is an ally of NATO, but it was the only South American country to raise troops for the Second World War, we fought in Italy with the 5th army, subordinate to General Mark Clark, we sent 25,000 in addition to being the largest base outside the USA, Parnamirim Field. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SIVPDImSdPE.html
