In early 2023, the USAF Uniform regulation was changed to allow 3 or 4 skill/occupational badges to be worn in OCP. (Service Dress or Class A is still two above ribbons) and authorizes wear of the that services version of the badge in OCP. Note : Major Abraham wears the Army version of the Air Assault & Airborne badges. Above those (and under his collar, is the Security Forces Careerfield badge)  U.S. Air Force Gen. Ken Wilsbach, commander of Air Combat Command, speaks (in flightsuit) with Maj. Keven Abraham, 822nd Base Defense Squadron commander, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, Dec. 2, 2024. During his visit, Wilsbach observed an Agile Combat Employment demonstration to get a first-hand look at the base’s capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Whitney Gillespie)

Wind and Rain… Sainte Mere Eglise today…    

If anyone else got any timepieces from WW1 go ahead and post them. One of the most interesting WW1 watches I ever found was from someone who served in the British army he coxswains landing boats in the Gallipoli campaign. Got a photo uniform and all with the watch on his wrist with a button stick and his pay records and a few other things. If a mod says it's OK to post here since it's not US military but British, I will post it in this thread.

Can't forget the early US Air Force and a rare navy clock not many with the name it's from a US Navy tugboat.

A few more

Two of the MG Battalions of the 26th Division painted theirs in March 1918. Most, or all, of the infantry regiments of the 35th had painted theirs by the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. The 89th Division received orders to paint insignia on their helmets in September 1918.  It's unclear whether any elements of the division did so before the Armistice, but some had painted helmets by late November.   One of the 37th Division histories states that helmets and gas mask bags were marked in October 1918, but it's not clear what those markings were.   That's it for pre-Armistice painted helmets as far as I know.  The 80th Division comes up a lot as a possibility, but the earliest evidence for painted helmets I've seen is April 1919.   There's considerably more documentation about when various divisions painted helmets after the Armistice.  As with the list of pre-Armistice painted helmets, these dates come from unit histories and/or dated photographs.   The 28th Division painted theirs in March, 1919.   Parts of the 80th Division painted their helmets in April, 1919, as did the 77th Division. The 103rd Field Artillery of the 26th Division pasted on their paper insignia aboard ship on the way home in April, 1919. The 78th Division painted their helmets at some point before they left France in May, 1919. The 33rd Division had painted helmets for their victory parades in late spring, 1919.

Trench watches  

I have been concentrating WW1 timepieces lately from any branch of service here are a few of them.  

Note: SMSgt (E-8) Stokes (on right) wears the USAF Spice Brown Air Assault Badge. *above that is the Security Forces Careerfield Badge. (equivalent to Btanch Insignia) U.S. Airmen assigned to 60th Security Forces Squadron stand at parade rest during the closing ceremony of the 2025 National Police Week at Travis Air Force Base, California, May 16, 2025. During the closing ceremony, awards were given out, "Taps" was played for fallen security forces members and the event culminated in a barbeque for colleagues and family members to close-out the week. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kenneth Abbate)

That should be Intelligence Technician not Specialist, but I can't edit it to fix my error.