Post Korean War  

The cap band backing piece was introduced in the 1947 uniform regulations.

7th Army botch job, a WWII one, the entire Seven Steps motif shifted when embroidered, or is it a case of the triangle was not embroidered big enough, wide enough??.

Does anyone know which year they switch from putting the CPO badge on the cover to the cap band?

That's a really good story! Thank you for sharing and thank you for your service. 

It doesn’t hurt to restore something that has already  been restored.   

Very interesting indeed!

I’m looking for the original NAS patch to put in my mother’s flag box. 

In downtown gadsden there's two stores that I know of, first is Dusty Things. Seemed OK prices were a bit high on most stuff (a beat up alice mag pouch for $27) but there Seemed to be a couple of things that were reasonable. The other store is Gadsden Variety Antique Mall, not much here and prices Seemed high. It seems to be a common thing around my area for ALL m1 helmets to be either "ww2 or Vietnam" this store was no exception a obviously last issue m1 that was missing a bail was "ww2" and priced at $50.🙄

That is Beautiful!  Thank you for sharing!