Maj. Jack R. Rickman drew the Air Assault Badge in 1971 while serving with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam, and he never earned the badge himself. The design borrows from the Parachutist Badge...
The shape in the middle of the Air Assault Badge is the nose of a UH-1 Huey seen head on, and the bar across the top is its rotor blade standing in for a wing. Maj. Jack R. Rickman of the 101st...