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Old 12-11-2010, 12:58   #16
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Blood wings

Anyone remember the company commander that gave the blood wings to the French commandos? They jumped with us first...and he slammed our wings into their chests. Then... We jumped with them. Payback was hell. If you have the badge you know what I mean. It's a broach pin on the back. I'm pretty sure I still have the certificate. Let me know if you need it.
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Old 12-16-2010, 13:08   #17
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It is one of the fw things I know exactly where it is located in the garage. I'll try to remember to scan it tonight.

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Old 12-23-2010, 09:57   #18
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A copy is enroute via yahoo
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Old 10-28-2011, 05:06   #19
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French Wings

In the "for whatever it's worth department", the French are notoriously tight about awarding their wings to anyone and if you do get to jump with them, they may promise you wings once we've given them ours but unless you have a certificate from the school at Pau then you don't have wings. Then it may take a while too. I had an online conversation about this with a German reserve NCO (he trained at Bad Tolz in the 70s and 80s) and passed on his experience with the 13th RDP which used to be at Friedrichshaffen (sp?) on the Bodensee.
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Old 10-28-2011, 05:27   #20
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In the "for whatever it's worth department", the French are notoriously tight about awarding their wings to anyone and if you do get to jump with them, they may promise you wings once we've given them ours but unless you have a certificate from the school at Pau then you don't have wings..........
You can say that again. Jumped a C-160 Transall(?) in France on one of their big FTXs and then jumped with the French Marines in Zaire. As they said - got three more to go.
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Old 10-28-2011, 15:11   #21
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When I was at Tolz the rules were agreed upon in the beginning, French, German, whatever wings cost 5 jumps, US wings cost 5 jumps. IIRC we had to make 3 balloon jumps to get the Belgian wings in 1986 with no reciprical award to the Belgians This came at the end of Flintlock and we had Belgian Commandos and Para's with us for 3 weeks in the field in Belgium.

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Old 10-28-2011, 15:49   #22
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Well...it is French and some sort of unit tradition going back to 1936...

I think I'd rather wear my old 'Johnson-Humphrey' campaign button.

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Old 10-28-2011, 20:44   #23
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In the "for whatever it's worth department", the French are notoriously tight about awarding their wings to anyone
Concur...worked a military parachuting exercise in Valladolid, (Villanubla) Spain. The French did not exchange wings with any of the other nations participating.
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Old 11-06-2011, 03:37   #24
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french wings

i want to say we got ours when we did that 50th anniversary of the southern france landings.
we did some crazy amount of jumps with 074/084/094 back in '93 or '94??
it was such a big deal that we went to the tunnel for two or three days before we went to france from Devens. Met up with the free fall team out of 1/10.
The Brits sux'ed, the French nailed it, Norton had a cut away and one of our guys ran into another guy for a low altitude entanglement.
Worst goat-roping I ever had as a JM. Blah.
Jughead Riley and some other old timers were there with us.
Ultimately for this tale of woe, we did get French wings at the end of our little expedition.

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