The Air Force ... available in Army and Air Force Exchange Service stores. The patch version is expected to be in AAFES stores by the end of the month, but the metal badge is still being developed.

The Air Force is one of the last branches to create its own unique diver badge. In 2001, the Marine Corps created the Combat Diver Insignia, and in 2004 the Army created new Special Operations ...

as the service had not made its own (the Marine Corps and Army have their own). The first cloth badges have been distributed, but the Air Force is also working on metal pins with the same design.

It all began with, of all things, the Army Signal Corps. In the earliest years of powered, heavier-than-air aircraft after the Wrights flew at Kitty Hawk, people looked to flying machines ...

Happy birthday to the U.S. Air Force, which officially celebrates 76 years of aiming high, flying, fighting and winning ... when the U.S. Army Signal Corps established an aeronautical division ...