Retired Officers

[PaulR]

I have two sets... one is for a Heer Medical Reserve Lt and the other is for a LW Signals officer. I find these especially rare and hard to find.

[PaulR]

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[Richard P]

Paul,

That is something you rarely see. When you do, it is usually on high ranking officers, at least that is my experience. I wonder how many uniforms were changed to combat officer insignia to be more desirable? Thanks for sharing,

Richard

[PaulR]

Thanks Richard,

I will post the LW set when I get them in. They were dirt cheap too. Does anyone else have any of these to show? Anyone seen any still attached to a uniform? I would think that most of these people ended up removing the loops and returning to active duty before the war ended...

Paul

[Gary B]

Very nice pair Paul...shouldn't you be on a boat or something!?!

Gary B

[PaulR]

Thanks Gary! Yes... I leave next Sunday. I left a message on your work phone Friday.

[CWP]

Very cool insignia Paul, I agree that these are seldom seen.

[PaulR]

Thanks Chris! I love these oddities. This is one of a few pieces of non LW insignia I have remaining.

[Johnny R]

Very nice, I have never seen these before. I love this site, but you are still a jarhead.

[PaulR]

Thanks! I really like that set of insignia. I won it off of Ebay.de about three years ago for a song. People just dont like the non streamline stuff like I do!

Regarding the Jarhead statement... Damn skippy! Once a Marine ALWAYS a Marine!!

[Jan B]

Great example Paul, and in my favorite color!

Regards

Jan

[PaulR]

Does anyone else have any examples?

[DKNYC71]

These type of board are very neat. I had posted this past weekend, boards from a Generals tunic, asking our fellow members as to what the tabs represented, and was informed about these representing "retired". My boards have one set of strips on each, as opposed to yours which have two strips, I wonder if anyone knows the significance of this??

[airborne_steve]

Paul,

Very rare to see these retirement tresses on a Company Grade Officers shoulder boards. Neat acquisition.

Steve

[PaulR]

Thanks Steve and DKNYC71.

I posted them onto a German militaria forum( .de website) and I was just informed that the double tress stood for an officer who was on probationary/entry status? I cannot find this in writing, but it would make sense for such a junior officer on reserve status?

DKNYC71,

That tunic is freaking AWESOME! Is it named? I will have to find that thread.