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Blood wings are a traditional rite of passage that numerous members of the armed forces practice when they graduate or rank up. It involves pinning the new rank badge to a military member’s skin through their clothes – causing them to bleed.
Blood wings is a traditional initiation rite that is endured by many graduates of the United States Army Airborne School and the United States Army Air Assault School and sometimes practiced in other military training environments, including the Army Aviation and Aviation Logistics community.
Blood wings are against Armed Forces Policy and are prohibited. Recipients of blood wings consider it a highly honorable rite of passage. The offer of blood wings is usually presented by a superior to an elite soldier who has reached a significant career transition point.
Blood wings is a traditional initiation rite that is endured by many graduates of the United States Army Airborne School and the United States Army Air Assault School and sometimes practiced in other military training environments, including the Army Aviation and Aviation Logistics community.
Sep 5, 2012 · By Army standards, hazing is cruel, abusive, oppressive or harmful behavior that may or may not include physical, emotional or psychological acts and can occur at any function where Soldiers...
The Marine Corps needs rites of passage; it doesn't need hazing. These Marines, members of an aerial delivery unit, grimace in pain as metal jump wings are pounded into their chests during a "blood pinning" ritual.
As for "blood wings," you probably saw the video in the 1990s when some USMC Force Recon Marines at Camp Lejeune, NC, were viciously punching gold jump wings into the chests of newly-qualified members of the unit, as well as grabbing the ends of wings and twisting them back and forth while still embedded in the chests of the victims.
