Miniature or Regular?

[PHall]

I think the only two sizes offered for AFSC badges are regular and 'mid-size'; don't think I've seen miniatures of them.

The "wear out" date for the miniatures was 1 OCT 97.

[jb512]

That would make sense then.  So would you wear the mid-size crab claws with the mini wings?

[PHall]

That would make sense then.  So would you wear the mid-size crab claws with the mini wings?

That's what I wear, and it doesn't look that bad either. (Chief Enlisted Aircrew wings and the Basic Aircraft and Munitions Maintenance badge)

[CAP277]

So if you wear miniature CAP aircrew wings, you need to wear a miniature GTM badge with it as well ?

This combo:
http://www.vanguardmil.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6_390_412_413&products_id=7265
http://www.vanguardmil.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6_390_391_393&products_id=7001

?

Thanks

[Hawk200]

So if you wear miniature CAP aircrew wings, you need to wear a miniature GTM badge with it as well ?
....

Correct. Per Table 6-2, Line 5: "Either miniature or regular size badges may be worn on service coats, shirts, blouses, or mess dress but all must match." (Emphasis added).

Some argue that minis look better, but it's a matter of personal preference.

[Eclipse]

Faster than me, see above.

Most members don't even know they sell mini badges.

[davidsinn]

I wear large badges and when I earn them I will wear large wings. Why you ask? So they are all standard in my box of insignia. I can swap them out easily.

[HGjunkie]

I wear large badges and when I earn them I will wear large wings. Why you ask? So they are all standard in my box of insignia. I can swap them out easily.

No no no, that makes too much sense. There's too much common sense In that post.

[DakRadz]

I wear large badges and when I earn them I will wear large wings. Why you ask? So they are all standard in my box of insignia. I can swap them out easily.

No no no, that makes too much sense. There's too much common sense In that post.

Agreed.

Captain Sinn, according to the only tradition popular in the upper echelons of CAP, you are officially hereby disqualified from serving on any governing body in the Civil Air Patrol. This proclaimed per Act IV of the Pineda Chapter of CAP History, subsection 124, paragraph 37, line 2. This act done in the name of the tradition of a lack of common sense.

[HGjunkie]

I wear large badges and when I earn them I will wear large wings. Why you ask? So they are all standard in my box of insignia. I can swap them out easily.

No no no, that makes too much sense. There's too much common sense In that post.

Agreed.

Captain Sinn, according to the only tradition popular in the upper echelons of CAP, you are officially hereby disqualified from serving on any governing body in the Civil Air Patrol. This proclaimed per Act IV of the Pineda Chapter of CAP History, subsection 124, paragraph 37, line 2. This act done in the name of the tradition of a lack of common sense.

   

[davidsinn]

I wear large badges and when I earn them I will wear large wings. Why you ask? So they are all standard in my box of insignia. I can swap them out easily.

No no no, that makes too much sense. There's too much common sense In that post.

Agreed.

Captain Sinn, according to the only tradition popular in the upper echelons of CAP, you are officially hereby disqualified from serving on any governing body in the Civil Air Patrol. This proclaimed per Act IV of the Pineda Chapter of CAP History, subsection 124, paragraph 37, line 2. This act done in the name of the tradition of a lack of common sense.

Dang. Oh well doesn't bother me. I want to actually do things not sit around and talk about it.

[DakRadz]

Ah, but sir, you're still young. Wait til you age a bit- besides, you gotta be old to have a say 

Plus, you'll get cranky with the way these "whippersnappers ain't got no respect for a uniformed SM," and then you'll punish the ranks by making crazy uniform changes... Oh wait. See the cycle? 

[davidsinn]

Ah, but sir, you're still young. Wait til you age a bit- besides, you gotta be old to have a say 

Plus, you'll get cranky with the way these "whippersnappers ain't got no respect for a uniformed SM," and then you'll punish the ranks by making crazy uniform changes... Oh wait. See the cycle? 

I don't have a problem with most cadets respecting me. I earn their respect because I don't act like the south end of a northbound horse. That and I treat them with respect.

[DakRadz]

I don't have a problem with most cadets respecting me. I earn their respect because I don't act like the south end of a northbound horse. That and I treat them with respect.

Oh, I don't doubt that one bit sir. Admittedly, I was playing the senility/crankiness-comes-with-age card   

So, I have all regular sized, nonexistent insignia
The only one I'm looking at, I don't think comes in miniature. That would be the Model Rocketry Badge

[MSgt Van]

Typically on a shirt I'll wear full sized wings and Air Force specialty badge; no ribbons.

[DakRadz]

Typically on a shirt I'll wear full sized wings and Air Force specialty badge; no ribbons.

Only CAP makes me double-take when an NCO talk about wearing wings ^_^

I've noticed that a lot of AF generally wear just badges unless the occasion calls for more- seems a good practice to me

[jb512]

Typically on a shirt I'll wear full sized wings and Air Force specialty badge; no ribbons.

Only CAP makes me double-take when an NCO talk about wearing wings ^_^

I've noticed that a lot of AF generally wear just badges unless the occasion calls for more- seems a good practice to me

Wings aren't just for the zeros...

[DakRadz]

Typically on a shirt I'll wear full sized wings and Air Force specialty badge; no ribbons.

Only CAP makes me double-take when an NCO talks about wearing wings ^_^

I've noticed that a lot of AF generally wear just badges unless the occasion calls for more- seems a good practice to me

Wings aren't just for the zeros...

I know, just a double-take. Generally wings are for.. Os in the RM- and I know that there are enlisted variants for the RM as well. I also know that MSgt Van could have Command Pilot wings as a CAP SM. Now, that would cause a few looks, hmm? Oh I would actually love to see that.... E-7 meets General, guess which one has wings? XDD [/end OT daydream]

So anyway. Back to your regularly scheduled thread.

[jb512]

Typically on a shirt I'll wear full sized wings and Air Force specialty badge; no ribbons.

Only CAP makes me double-take when an NCO talks about wearing wings ^_^

I've noticed that a lot of AF generally wear just badges unless the occasion calls for more- seems a good practice to me

Wings aren't just for the zeros...

I know, just a double-take. Generally wings are for.. Os in the RM- and I know that there are enlisted variants for the RM as well.

Yeah, I think there are some enlisted variants for the RM...   

I think they told us in school that 1.8% of Air Force enlisted had the aircrew wings.

[DakRadz]

So for the Navy, two types of actual aviation-related wings(Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist/Naval Aircrew), with one Marine Corps (Combat Aircrew), Air Force has only one I can confirm (Enlisted Aircrew) with two I'm not sure about (Sensor Operator Badge/Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operator Badge), Army has Aircrew as well.

Then you could argue the parachutist badge (Basic version used by all services, and USN/USMC version as well as Army Freefall version) as well as the Army's Air Assault Badge, which is somewhat wing-ish.