Valter Posted May 19, 2011 Posted May 19, 2011 I'd like to show some badges of Yugolasv military schools. Every officer or NCO who graduated got one and was supposed to wear it on right breast pocket, but they usually wore them only in first years after graduation. In general, rounded badges are for highest schools, eight-pointed (two squares) for academies for officers, triangular for NCo schools and shields for military high schools (these were schools for preparation for academies). Older type badges were without star and newer type with red star. Ground forces badges were red, navy dark blue and air force light blue. 1st row, from left to right: Command staff school of operatics, ground forces; Command staff school of operatics, navy; War school (the highest military school in Yugoslavia); School of national defence. 2nd row: higher air force technical academy; higher ground forces technical academy; command-staff academy of ground forces; military medical academy. 3rd row: navy academy; air force reserve officers technical academy; air forces technical academy; yubilee badge for 30 years of air force technical academy.
Valter Posted May 19, 2011 Author Posted May 19, 2011 1st row: supply academy; ground forces technical academy; ground forces academy (new type); ground forces academy (old type with lapel pin for civil dress) 2nd row: ground forces political academy; military high school Franc Rozman Stane, Ljubljana; ground forces tehcnical NCO school; ground forces technical school for civilian specialist workers. 3rd row: two types of badges for air force high school Maršal Tito; medical NCO school; air force technical NCO school.
Valter Posted May 19, 2011 Author Posted May 19, 2011 Badge for distinguished teachers in pre-military training with box.
Valter Posted May 19, 2011 Author Posted May 19, 2011 Badge for distinguished teachers in pre-military training with box.
Valter Posted May 19, 2011 Author Posted May 19, 2011 Cased plaque for higher air force technical academy, with plate with professor's name; in this case, the professor is civilian, as he doesn't have rank.
Valter Posted May 19, 2011 Author Posted May 19, 2011 Air force technical NCO school badge in case. The cases for NCO schools are quite scarce.
Valter Posted May 19, 2011 Author Posted May 19, 2011 Outside of case... on previous pic, there's a mini lapel pin in the case. If you have any other badges, please post!
Valter Posted May 19, 2011 Author Posted May 19, 2011 This badge is often misinterpreted as air force transport crew badge and so on... Actually, it's a badge for instructors in air force (car, truck) driver's school.
Dolfek Posted May 21, 2011 Posted May 21, 2011 Thanks very much for sharing the badges and explaining them. So there are two sizes, the badge itself and the miniature pin? Regards, Dolfek.
Gordon Craig Posted May 21, 2011 Posted May 21, 2011 (edited) Valter, Terrific reference material here. I have some of these badges some place but I wasn't sure what they were. I'll have to see if I can find them and post mine. Regards, Gordon Edited May 21, 2011 by Gordon Craig
Valter Posted May 21, 2011 Author Posted May 21, 2011 Dolfek, yes, there are mini pins for evry academy/NCO/high schools. There's some disputes for the puropse of these pins: some refer them as pins for civil dress, some other references state these pjns were given by schools as a gift to visitors etc. There are several variations of these pins - enammeled, partly enammled, without enammel, different bae metals etc. Goprdon, I'm glad if I can help with reference. When you find your badges, please post them!
Drugo Posted May 23, 2011 Posted May 23, 2011 Valter, as already pointed out by Gordon, beautiful collection but above all very instructive presentation! Best regards, Filip
karnet Posted May 25, 2011 Posted May 25, 2011 Great Badges! Question: There was a badge of Topographic School? Thanks!
Valter Posted May 26, 2011 Author Posted May 26, 2011 Karnet, as far as I know there's no badge for Geodetical school. It was not called topographic, but geodetic, and the service was called geodetic profession (but their main task was topography/cartography). That school existed from 146-1958 (not sure), then it was merged with ground forces academy, which students divided in 3rd year to different branches of services/specialities, and one of these was also geodetical. The school badges I showed above were introduced around 1969, before that there were no badges like that. But from 70's there were many small pins, introduced also on anniversaries of different schools and institutes, and there could be also pin of geodetical school and/or military geographic institute. And one small correction of my mistake : On 2nd pic, 2nd row, 3rd badge from left - it's not ground forces technical NCO school, but general ground forces NCO school (for NCOs of infantry, artillery, armor etc.)
drewchaneyau Posted June 1, 2011 Posted June 1, 2011 (edited) G'day Guys....enjoying the thread. Thought I'd add to it by uploading my POLITICAL ACADEMY badges - Ground Forces, Air Force and Navy. In addition I have a gold pin and have seen a silver metal version thereof. Any ideas? DREW Edited June 1, 2011 by drewchaneyau
drewchaneyau Posted June 1, 2011 Posted June 1, 2011 Here is a picture of the gold and silvered pins for the Political Academy I have the gold version but not the silvered type. DREW
Valter Posted June 2, 2011 Author Posted June 2, 2011 Very nice set, Drew! For the pins, see my post #11...
paja Posted October 18, 2011 Posted October 18, 2011 Valter, my congrats on a beautiful collection. It has been a while since the last post in this great topic so I have decided to try to revive it with a humble contribution. Here are couple of pictures of my miniature pins. Political Academy
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