The further humiliation comes in the form of its insignia: a chicken with its wings in the ... in 1927 and first approved for use by the Army Air Corps in 1931, when the unit was still called ...

U.S. military aviation was born under the U.S. Army Signal Corps, which explains why the first fliers' insignia featured wings superimposed on signal flags. The fledgling Air Service racked up an ...

The only major differences between the Army and Air Force’s version of the OCP is that the latter will use spice brown for all patches and rank insignias with the exception of the first ...