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What do these notches on French beret badge signify?


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This is a well worn French Army Marine Infantry Paratrooper beret badge that has a number of hand cut notches along one side. Does anyone know what these notches signify? Could they be number of jumps or maybe number of combat jumps? Any ideas?

 

 

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I don't think the French Marines have that many combat jumps in their history.

 

Maybe he wanted to improve on the design during boredom, like a twisted rope?

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I don't think the French Marines have that many combat jumps in their history.

 

Maybe he wanted to improve on the design during boredom, like a twisted rope?

I've seen this done once before on a French metro airborne beret badge before so maybe the number of overseas tours?

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I recently came across another beret badge with hand cut something along the outer rim so this was something done by more than one person.

 

 

 

 

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