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I mean us crew chiefs would have nick names on our name tags as would some of the pilots. One crew chief friend of mine had two dragons embroidered on his two forearm sleeves on his G1 when we were at Cubi Point things like that were dirt cheap in the Philippines.

When I was in in the Marines in the 70s it was pretty much a free for all. Some of us put on name tags some didn't. Usually your jacket was a record of the squadrons and air stations you served.

One or the other. As stated in the link. Usually if you earned combat wings you wore them.

To earn combat wings and the stars that came with them your aircraft had to take place in combat missions. So many times for each star and there were gold stars and siver stars and if you earned combat wings you wore those. Can't remember how many times for each star and hew many more to go from...

With Marines you were either on flight pay or not. When in the far east we also received hazardous duty pay as well as our flight pay. When in the US only flight pay if you were on flight status. When on the LPH (I am shellback BTW old Corps you old salts know what I am talking about)) we lived...

Jeeze with all those folks involved a CH 46 or a Huey wouldn't be able to carry many Marines or much equipment because of all the flight crew ha ha. Marines are quick and nimble.

The Marine Corps is not very large compared to other branches so NCOs do a lot. Large CH 53s still had a Crew Chief and a first mech if lucky. Hueys the same and cobras a plane capt (non flying). Built in equipment was flight crew ha ha.

What we were responsable was everyhting that went on in the back and to also be able to tell the pilots what was happening when there was a problem like a circuit breaker popping. Talking them into LZs. Talking them over external cargo. Making sure the weight in the back didn't exceed...

As stated when I was in the Maines you don't get your wings until after you finish basic and specific helo schools. Then you are a first mech and you still need over 100 flight hours and then you have written tests and an in flight NATOPS evaluation before you earn your wings.

Yeah in the Marines and Navy Crew Chiefs are flight crew and fly with the aircraft. Get flight pay and are on flight skins. We have to earn our wings. Hundreds of hours of school at least 100 flight hours and very intense tests. And combat wings are if you flew in combat. From Wikipedia U.S...

Combat aircrew Navy and Marine are really cool to. I didn't earn those thank God.

These are stuck directly into the leather with no backings. It wasn't an issue when I served. We all wore our wings on or utilities to. Even every morning on FOD walk. We also always wore our collar rank insignia.

Air Crew wings are also in the mix. I was a CH 46 Crew Chief when I was in the Marines. We would often put our actual wings on our name tags like this. And yes they were very hard earned.

think a lot of my reasoning is tied to the branch of the Armed Forces that used the jacket. Only ever had one G-1. Either you're a soldier, or a sailor. ;) Or a Marine.

I have a US Authentic M 444 now and it is one nice sheepskin though not 100% accurate looks great. The sheepskin is to heavy compared to originals (which I really like) and the zipper's a paper clip type #10 and the side straps hardware are not right. Still it is my fav of all the sheepskin...