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:
“What do we want with this vast and worthless area, of this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds, of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs; to what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting and not a harbor in it?”
—For the State of Kansas, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Those who guard their mouths preserve their lives; those who open wide their lips come to ruin.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 13:3.
“But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Just across the Green from the post office is the county jail, seldom occupied except by some backwoodsman who has been intemperate; the courthouse is under the same roof. The dog warden usually basks in the sunlight near the harness store or the post office, his golden badge polished bright.”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)