The Coast Guard Command Enlisted Identification Badge is a temporary decoration which is awarded to those Coast Guard Petty Officers who serve as the senior enlisted advisor to a Coast Guard command when there are no Chief Petty Officers present.
Upon completion of duties as the senior enlisted advisor, the Command Enlisted Identification badge is surrendered and is not considered a permanent award. The Command Enlisted Identification Badge is worn on the lower left uniform pocket and is very similar to the CPO Command Identification Badge, upon which the decoration is based.
See also: Military badges of the United States
Famous quotes containing the words coast, guard, command and/or badge:
“And ladies with their nails prepared for tea
And sunken barques that coast the shores of hell
And old men vacant of propriety
Have faintly rung a next-door neighbor’s bell.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Faster, faster with no loss of ritual
Stiff minions without banners, a steady guard ...”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“By his command these words are cut:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
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—George Berkeley (1685–1753)