Glider Badge

Glider Badge
TypeSpecial skills badge
Awarded forMilitary glider operations
Presented byUnited States Army
StatusDiscontinued
Established2 June 1944–3 May 1961
Glider Badge with airborne background trimming from an unknown WWII glider infantry regiment

The Glider Badge was a special skills badge of the United States Army. According to the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry, the badge was awarded to personnel who had "been assigned or attached to a glider or airborne unit or to the Airborne Department of the Infantry School; satisfactorily completed a course of instruction, or participated in at least one combat glider mission into enemy-held territory.