05-01-2010, 06:14 PM
Shoulder boards for that uniform looks like these, in your case they should be like one to the right, but with single golden stripe indicating rank of gefreiter. Gefreiter rank was not very popular among enlisted men. Well known jock was saying “It’s better to have a daughter as prostitute than son as a gefreiter”. Collar tabs should looks like the ones at the bottom with azure color and golden stripe in the middle.
Sounds like after he was discharged from the service he enrolled in aviation technical specialist school and upon completion was given junior lieutenant rank. He was probably among the last ones, because from 1972 those schools start giving rank of proporshik instead of junior lieutenant.
Sounds like after he was discharged from the service he enrolled in aviation technical specialist school and upon completion was given junior lieutenant rank. He was probably among the last ones, because from 1972 those schools start giving rank of proporshik instead of junior lieutenant.
