The Combat Service Identification Badge, also referred to as a Combat Service ID Badge or just CSIB for short, was introduced in the early to mid-2000s to serve as the blue Army Service Uniform “equivalent” of the old Army Green Service Uniform Former Wartime Service (FWTS) insignia. As such, the design of a unit’s CSIB is almost always identical to its Shoulder Sleeve Insignia-FWTS; click the SSI link below to read about the insignia’s approval date, its redesignations, and the symbolism of the imagery used in the U.S. Army, North American Treaty Organization CSIB.
Article 5 is the linchpin of the North Atlantic Treaty that helped birth NATO; it calls for member nations to consider an attack on another NATO nation as an attack upon themselves and to come to the aid of the attacked nation. Surprisingly, this Article has been invoked only once since the Treat was signed in 1949, namely, following the September 11 2001 attack on the United States. This led to the creation of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), a multinational military mission in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014.
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