A polished chrome silver metal badge featuring a winged parachute emblem with the word 'RIGGER' across the center, displayed on a red, white, and blue striped background.

Parachute Rigger Badge Chrome Emblem

76mm/3 inch width
$ 9.95
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A polished chrome silver metal badge featuring a winged parachute emblem with the word 'RIGGER' across the center, displayed on a red, white, and blue striped background.
  • A polished chrome silver metal badge featuring a winged parachute emblem with the word 'RIGGER' across the center, displayed on a red, white, and blue striped background.
  • A polished chrome silver metal badge featuring a winged parachute emblem with the word 'RIGGER' across the center, displayed on a red, white, and blue striped background.
  • Parachute Rigger Badge on a truck rear window
  • A polished chrome silver metal badge featuring a winged parachute emblem with the word 'RIGGER' across the center, displayed on a red, white, and blue striped background.
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Parachute Rigger

Parachute Rigger Badge Chrome Emblem

$ 9.95
A black silhouette of a saluting soldier in front of a stylized American flag, shown on a plain white background.

Veteran Owned and Operated

Two black and white military-style airborne insignia emblems on a plain white background, one showing a standard eagle head with the word AIRBORNE and the other crossed out with an X.

Metal, Not Plastic

A black and white 3M brand icon with a peeled-back top-right corner, representing a product or material sample.

Installs with genuine 3M adhesive

The first Parachute Rigger Badge Chrome Emblem badge was designed in 1948 by MAJ Thomas R. Cross and drawn by SFC Ewing of the 11th Parachute Maintenance Company, 11th Airborne Division at Camp Schimmelpfennig, Sendai, Japan, and was first used operationally during Exercise Swarmer in 1950.

Prior to the official adoption of the badge, it had been worn under Major Command commander’s authority to authorize the wear of locally designed badges on the utility uniform.

Official adoption of the badge had been sought for many years by a variety of Quartermaster officials. The adoption was based on a formal request submitted by Mr. James S. Emery, Military Analyst, Airborne Department, Quartermaster School in 1983. This request received unprecedented support from the field, unfortunately it was disapproved at the time. In 1986, GEN Richard H. Thompson, commander of the U.S. Army Materiel Command and the senior Quartermaster officer in the Army wrote the Chief of Staff of the Army asking him to reconsider the 1983 decision. After requesting some field comments, GEN Wickham approved the Parachute Rigger Badge Chrome Emblems badge on 9 June 1986

*Approx 2″ and 3" width, chrome plated, zinc alloy
*Attaches with 3M adhesive
*Tabs, units, and insignia sold separately

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