The volunteer Medical Reserve Corps is a disaster component of the Department of Health and Human Services:

 

US Army Reserve Forces Command armband:

 

Here’s an armband from the 19th Support Command, Camp Humphreys, South Korea “CP” (Courtesy Patrol).

 

Note that there should be no apostrophe in “Humphreys”.

 

This is a “bringback” from one of this program’s advisors to ISCI (Interim Security for Critical Infrastructure). Marjah is a village in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The program of Auxiliary Police was started in 2010.

A somewhat rare Civil Defense armband for a Telephone Operator along with the envelope it was issued in:

 

5 hours ago, Cobra 6 Actual said:

A somewhat rare Civil Defense armband for a Telephone Operator along with the envelope it was issued in:

 

 

Super nice and with that envelope, wow!

Thanks, jmd62! This was in an era where “operating” a telephone network was an extremely complicated affair!

15 hours ago, Cobra 6 Actual said:

Thanks, jmd62! This was in an era where “operating” a telephone network was an extremely complicated affair!

 I was just discussing that yesterday randomly. My oldest brother started working for Pacific Bell in the late 60's and it was quite different back in the day. 

Definitely so, jmd62. Here’s a wiki photo from 1979:

 

 

I had a friend that worked as a night manager at a small hotel in Virginia in the mid-1960’s. His duties included “buzzing” guests into the hotel, security, resolving complaints, check-in and check-out, as well as working a switchboard that looked a lot like this. Talk about “multitasking”!

Throwback! My brother's wife was also in the phone company and did just that, a switchboard operator. I always think back to Lily Tomlin's skit in "Laugh-in."  :D 

Sorry, out of likes. That was a great TV program. As an aside: This was also the era where we had “party lines”, so would share our telephone connection with 2 or 3 other residences. You could only use your phone of no one else was on it. And, naturally, privacy was, unfortunately, unheard of.

This is probably immediately post War (early 1950’s):

 

 

I believe this particular BSG unit was located in Kabul, Afghanistan.

WWI Wisconsin Council of Defense armband:

 

9 hours ago, Cobra 6 Actual said:

WWI Wisconsin Council of Defense armband:

 

WWI, now that's an oldie! Very cool Cobra 6  👍

Thanks, jmd62. Fortunately, since it’s not wool it is in one piece.

Good point, wool ones definitely tend to have moth damage. 

Exactly, jmd62. However, a friend told me how to repair the small moth holes: he uses a sweater shaver on the reverse of the armband to get some fuzz, turns the armband back over so the moth hole is visible, uses a toothpick to insert some clear glue into the hole, stuffs in the wool fuzz from the sweater shaver, puts a small piece of wax paper over the fuzz and then puts several books on top to press the fuzz down. He lets it dry for several hours, and finally, uses that sweater shaver to trim off any excess. Not sure that a conservationist would approve, but my friend showed me a couple of holes he repaired and I can’t even tell where they awere unless you hold them up to the light.

3 hours ago, Cobra 6 Actual said:

Exactly, jmd62. However, a friend told me how to repair the small moth holes: he uses a sweater shaver on the reverse of the armband to get some fuzz, turns the armband back over so the moth hole is visible, uses a toothpick to insert some clear glue into the hole, stuffs in the wool fuzz from the sweater shaver, puts a small piece of wax paper over the fuzz and then puts several books on top to press the fuzz down. He lets it dry for several hours, and finally, uses that sweater shaver to trim off any excess. Not sure that a conservationist would approve, but my friend showed me a couple of holes he repaired and I can’t even tell where they awere unless you hold them up to the light.

That's sounds pretty cool actually, thanks for sharing that!

Glad to, jmd62. Again, perhaps a conservationist would be appalled, but within reason this seems OK to me.

 

This paper armband was likely issued in WWII to a new member, before she received their uniform:

 

How cool Cobra 6! Thanks for sharing it. 👍