Senior Pilot and Command pilot ratings

Nope, badges come in two sizes. One for the ClassA blouse (large) and one
for the blue shirt (small). My Navigator wings are just the same size as a
pilots wings.
--
Les
F-4C(WW),D,E,G(WW)/AC-130A/MC-130E EWO (ret)


"Mike Marron" wrote in message
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"Phineas Pinkham" wrote:

Doesn't really matter. They all wear Aviation Badges anyway. Look like
Coxey's Army. Can't tell the Pilots without a Program!

USAF Command Pilot wings are much larger in size (rightfully so!)
than other aviation badges. I don't think it's no accident that I
haven't lost Dad's Command Pilot wings but I did (regrettably)
somehow manage to lose his medals back when I was a young
kid. The silver wings have tarnished a bit over the years but that's
OK since you can clearly see the imprint where he used his thumb
to pin the wings onto his dress blues.

-Mike Marron

Les Matheson wrote:
Nope, badges come in two sizes. One for the ClassA blouse (large)
and one for the blue shirt (small). My Navigator wings are just the
same size as a pilots wings.

"Mike Marron" wrote in message
...
"Phineas Pinkham" wrote:

Doesn't really matter. They all wear Aviation Badges anyway. Look
like Coxey's Army. Can't tell the Pilots without a Program!

USAF Command Pilot wings are much larger in size (rightfully so!)
than other aviation badges. I don't think it's no accident that I
haven't lost Dad's Command Pilot wings but I did (regrettably)
somehow manage to lose his medals back when I was a young
kid. The silver wings have tarnished a bit over the years but that's
OK since you can clearly see the imprint where he used his thumb
to pin the wings onto his dress blues.

-Mike Marron

I just got an email from a friend who just made LtCol. I remarked that now
he could wear the wheel hat with the "farts & darts" (clouds with lightning
bolts) on the visor. He replied that the Air Force no longer uses the wheel
hat. When did that start?

--

Darrell R. Schmidt

B-58 Hustler History: http://members.cox.net/dschmidt1/

"Darrell" wrote

I just got an email from a friend who just made LtCol. I remarked that now
he could wear the wheel hat with the "farts & darts" (clouds with lightning
bolts) on the visor. He replied that the Air Force no longer uses the wheel
hat. When did that start?

People stopped wearing them in about 1975, and I think they stopped being
issued in 1993. Probably in concert with the McPeak uniform change.

"Darrell" wrote in message
news:bPM6b.13690$QT5.13568@fed1read02...
I just got an email from a friend who just made LtCol. I remarked that
now
he could wear the wheel hat with the "farts & darts" (clouds with
lightning
bolts) on the visor. He replied that the Air Force no longer uses the
wheel
hat. When did that start?

--

Darrell R. Schmidt

Not only is it not true but now majors can wear the decorated ones like
field grade officers in other services.

Tex Houston

Not only is it not true but now majors can wear the decorated ones like
field grade officers in other services.

Tex Houston


Hmm Tex, I'm not sure where you got that info from. The wheel hat was removed
as a mandatory uniform item for everyone around 1996. A few years later it was
reinstated as a uniform item for special duty officers (I'm just guessing those
that work overseas or for POTUS support) and certain enlisted AFSCs (some of
whom never really got rid of them like honor guards). Bottom line, I don't have
one, and am not required to have one.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"