The Quartermaster coin and insignia have boldly gone where few, if any, Army organizational identifiers have gone before. On Saturday, a travel and photography first was achieved thanks to a University of Alabama student initiative – Project Firefly.
During a high-altitude prototype flight from the Tuscaloosa campus, a QM Distinctive Unit Insignia and the QM General’s Coin of Excellence were lifted 94,000-feet into the stratosphere on a balloon platform. A GoPro camera captured photographs during the successful trip.