1st Battalion Canadian Airborne Large Jacket Patch

1st Battalion Special Operations Canadian Airborne Aeroporte jacket patch. Fully embroidered on twill with a cheese cloth back. Large size at 7 3/4” x 6 1/8” The main proponent of the Airborne was General Jean Victor Allard who, as commander of the Army (i.e. Mobile Command) and then Chief of Defence Staff, created it between 1965 and 1968 as a large rapid-reaction, light mobile force, suitable for overseas brigade-size missions. It was designed as a flexible short-term immediate response available to the government when it accepted an overseas reinforcement or intervention mission within NATO, or elsewhere. It would be replaced in a brigade's proposed mission area, after no more than a few weeks, once the main body of a heavier brigade was mobilized and transported with its fighting vehicles and support to the area.