The 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team Combat Service ID Badge, or CSIB, is taken directly from the Brigade’s Shoulder Sleeve Insignia (unit patch), which in turn was taken from the 48th Infantry Division unit patch when that unit was reorganized into a Brigade in 1965 (the Division was inactivated in 1968). A sun setting over the Pacific ocean symbolizes the Division’s origins from units from several Western and Northwestern states, and the insignia led to the Division’s official nickname of “Sunset,” which also was passed on to the 48th IBCT.
Combat Service ID Badges are worn on the right side of the Army Service/Dress and Mess/Evening Mess uniforms. On the male Army Service/Dress uniform and the Service uniform shirt, the CSIB is worn on the breast pocket centered between the bottom of the pocket flap and the bottom of the pocket and also centered from left to right. (If more than two ID badges are worn on a side, the precedence of badges from highest to lowest is from the wearer’s right to left and badges are space one inch apart.) On male Mess/Evening Mess uniforms, ID badges including the CSIB are centered between the top two jacket buttons, with similar rules regarding placement of multiple badges.
Females wear the CSIB parallel to the waistline of the Army Service/Dress uniform, positioned s that its top is roughly flush with the top of the second jacket button from the bottom (the CSIB is placed so that its bottom is roughly flush with the second shirt button from the bottom of the Service uniform shirt). On the Mess/Evening Mess uniforms, females center the badge between the jacket’s two lowest buttons. Females are allowed to adjust the CSIB placement to accommodate differences in body shape, and all personnel are allowed to wear large CSIB badges with other badges that are available in a miniature size for wear on the Mess/Evening Mess.
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