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Badge description: Silver coloured bullion embroidered, antique silver oak leaf border, at the bottom a recessed rectangular plate in the federal colours black, red and gold. In the middle of the oak leaf border is a stylized, swooping eagle.
In the Bundeswehr, the paratrooper groups are part of the infantry.
The Fallschirmjägertruppe (paratroopers) of the Bundeswehr with the associated Luftlandetruppen (airborne troops) was formed on 3 July 1956 with the Luftlande-Jägerbataillonen (airborne fighter battalions) 106 Ellwangen and 116 Kempten.
