Astronaut Paratrooper Sterling 1st Marine Division 503rd Airborne Parachute Infantry Regiment

503rd Airborne Parachute Infantry Regiment (The Rock) Metal Sign 14 x 16"

This badge is raher thick and about double in weight of any other paratrooper badges I have had or made

California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation (SPECIAL AGENT) Badge all Metal Sign with your Badge Number added

While originally created with a defensive mission in mind

military drawdown of the 1990s

Astronaut Paratrooper Sterling 1st Marine Division 503rd Airborne Parachute Infantry RegimentMy first 10 years in the Air Force was in the Aerial Delivery and Parachute Branch. One of the heros of that branch had been in it 10 years before I ever arrived and had jumped from 102,800 feet. Col. Joe Kittinger was later a POW in Vietnam and all of us followed what was happening to him in our branch. Five years ago I met him at the National Boy Scout Jamboree and started just mentioning names of people in that branch, he became very quiet and just