Badge "Military School".

[Nack]

Maybe this is a silly question, but what is the difference between the oval academy badges and the diammond shaped ones?

[HuliganRS]

Oval ones were used strictly for specialized military schools.

Rusty.

[Tretov]

Oval ones were used strictly for specialized military schools.

Rusty.

What is the time era for those oval ones? I have one on a generals service uniform, it feels like it does not fit there but it was mounted when I got it :confused: and there are no traces underneath from a diamond shaped one. Could a high officer, like a general have a such one?

[Nack]

Does anyone know what school(s) a justice officer could have gone to before becoming a soviet JAG?

And if so, does anyone have a pics of the badges for those schools?

[ibaya]

Oval ones were used strictly for specialized military schools.

Rusty.

The way I understood it, the oval graduation badge was first introduced in the late 1940's. Badges depicting specific branch-of-service insignis were adopted and issued up to 1958, when a generic "BY" (military school) design was adopted. In the late 1960's/early 1970's, the diamond-shaped "rhomb" graduation badge was adopted for new junior officer graduates. The higher military academies had already been using the "rhomb" shape since the 1940's.

Does anyone know what school(s) a justice officer could have gone to before becoming a soviet JAG?

And if so, does anyone have a pics of the badges for those schools?

The Moscow Military Institute had a law faculty, among its other departments. I would supposed all its graduates would receive the same badge ...

http://milinst.tripod.com/MMI/mmi_history.htm

[CtahhR]

Here is an early and well worn example of this Military School Badge.

[CtahhR]

A late unissued example. These can still be found in bulk, in their cases straight off the warehouse shelf.