This one probably wins an award for “Longest Acronym on an Armband”:

 

 

US Army Europe “Mobilization Support Center”.

This is a civil defense armband made in oilcloth:

 

 

Unfortunately, oilcloth does not age well and these tend to become brittle over time.

This grouping is listed on Etsy and asking $29.95 ea. Have at them folks! I dont know if they are a forum member or not.

Very cool, Easterneagle87. Thanks for the tip. Here’s a slight shift to the Boy Scouts:

 

This is for an Emergency Preparedness Apprentice. (I include the Boy Scouts as they, like the CCC,  were a ‘feeder” for the military.)

Correction on the BSA armband, above: it’s for Emergency Services in Training (~1949 to 1962). Here’s the BSA’s Emergency Service Apprentice (~1941 to 1948):

 

Nicely done armband!

Thanks, jmd62. Last BSA one for now. This is an Emergency Service Corps (~1939 to 1948) armband:

 

Nice one Cobra 6!

Thanks, jmd62. Here’s a Toys for Tots one:

 

Nice!

Let’s shift to civil defense for awhile. Here’s an advertisement that describes both the prices and the names of the designs:

Here’s the bottom half of that ad:

 

Here are a few new armband additions to the collection

Nice ones, kyhistorian01! I’m going to post a few civil defense ones now. This is for the Emergency Food and Housing Corps:

 

 

Civil Defense Auxiliary Police armband

 

 

 

Nice one, Salvage Sailor! I have a similar one:
 

 

Here’s another CD one:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Handmade version of the “Fire Watcher” armband:

 

 

The “Railroad” title is a rare one. More interesting, this has the owner’s name and his town (Brunswick, Maryland) on the reverse in pencil:

 

 

Two West Berlin CHECKPOINT MP Brassards, 70s-80s,

Wow, those are both beauties, patches! Here’s why wool and felt armbands feel out of favor:

 

 

And, here’s a CD Messenger armband minus the moth nips:

 

Nice ones as always Cobra 6!

Thanks, jmd62. One more for today. This is a giant size (6” in diameter) patch converted into an armband:

 

Utility Repair Squad

 

Here’s one I picked up awhile back. 

WWII era Railway MP armband. 

That’s a couple of nice ones, Bulldog. Here’s a Civil Defense “Staff Corps” one: