The U.S. Army Element, Special Operations Command Europe Combat Service Identification Badge, or CSIB or Combat Service ID Badge, employs the same design as the organization’s Shoulder Sleeve Insignia–Military Operations in Hostile Conditions insignia (SSI-MOHC).
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The Combat Service Identification Badge, or CSIB, was introduced along with the blue Army Service Uniform (ASU) to make up for ensemble’s lack of a Shoulder Sleeve Insignia denoting a unit in which the wearer had served that had seen combat. Called the SSI-FWTS for “Former Wartime Service,” that patch was worn on the wearer’s right sleeve on the old Green Army Service Uniform the ASU replaced.
But while the SSI-FWTS has been brought back for wear with the new AGSU under a new designation—SSI-MOHC for “Military Operations in Hostile Conditions” —the CSIB remains available for wear on the blue ASU/ASU Dress, Mess, and Evening Mess Uniforms.
The CSIB is worn on the wearer’s right side centered on the pocket of the coat (between the bottom of the pocket flap and the bottom of the pocket) or shirt. Only one CSIB may be worn at a time, but if the wearer has another ID badge, they are centered vertically as described and spaced equally from left to right on the pocket. Personnel with a CSIB and another ID badge prescribed for wear on the right side may move the other badge to the left if it is of lower precedence than the CSIB so that the CSIB might stand alone.