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
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“The Boston papers had never told me that there were seals in the harbor. I had always associated these with the Esquimaux and other outlandish people. Yet from the parlor windows all along the coast you may see families of them sporting on the flats. They were as strange to me as the merman would be. Ladies who never walk in the woods, sail over the sea. To go to sea! Why, it is to have the experience of Noah,—to realize the deluge. Every vessel is an ark.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 13:3.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)