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Hey RainPilot, thanks for helping out with the requests. Can you change my username to DiveSoup?

I agree and like the heritage that comes along with it. I like my bubble! But at the same time military badges should indicate a level of training or qualification. From what I understand, pretty much the only other people that use that badge now are Navy basic divers with just a few months. An...

You're absolutely right Bob. Air Force combat divers that attended the Marine or Army courses are authorized to wear their badges, but very few (if any) now attend those courses since the Air Force made its own self-sufficient Combat Dive Course in 2006. Before the Marines made a new badge in...

Just to contribute to the topic of Pararescue and diving, PJs still perform recovery dive operation in combat to this day. Besides Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) its is safe to say that PJs perform operational dives more than any other specialty under the Special Operations umbrella...

Here is the current AF Combat Dive Badge. Graduates of the Air Force Combat Dive course in Panama City get this. Typically it is limited to PJs, CROs, CCT, STOs, but sometimes other careers go the course. Survival school underwater egress safties wear the badge too but they just attend the Navy...

Great information, thanks. Its cool to see the pictures with the old double hose regulators. This style is still found on the current Air Force Dive badge despite the other high-speed divers updating their badges to match more current systems. While in some ways an update of the badge might be...

John, Great information, thanks for sharing your stories. Diving is a currently a standard part of the Pararescue skillset but has it always been that way? From what I've read it seems to have started with NASA in the 60's but there has to be more to the story.