Editing Honorable Service Lapel Button (section)

{{Infobox award
| name             = Honorable Service Lapel Button
| image            = Ruptured duck pin.gif
| image_size       = 270
| caption          = 1939–1946
| type             = [[Lapel pin|Lapel button]]
| awarded_for      = honorable [[Federal government of the United States|Federal]] military service between June 9, 1925 and December 31, 1946.
| country          = [[United States]]
| presenter        = [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]]<br>[[United States Secretary of the Navy|Secretary of the Navy]]
| status           = [[Obsolescence|Obsolete]]
| established      = General Orders 13, [[United States Department of War|War Department]], June 9, 1925
| image2           = ArmyLapelButton.PNG
| image2_size      = 270
| caption2         = 1925–1939
}}
The '''Honorable Service Lapel Button''', colloquially called "'''Ruptured Duck'''" by the members of the military, was a [[Lapel pin|lapel button]] awarded for honorable [[Federal government of the United States|Federal]] military service between 1925 and 1946.<ref name="GPO">{{cite web|title=32 C.F.R. § 578.54.|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2008-title32-vol3/pdf/CFR-2008-title32-vol3-sec578-63.pdf |publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|GPO]] |accessdate=January 1, 2022}}</ref> The award, designed by [[Anthony de Francisci]], was issued for wear on the left lapel of civilian clothing upon [[Military discharge|discharge]].

The [[United States Department of War|U.S. departments of War]] and the [[United States Department of the Navy|Navy]] issued the lapel button to eligible servicemen and women upon discharge. It was made of gilt brass, except during metal shortages during which it was made of gilt plastic. Service members who received the plastic version were later allowed to trade it in for the brass version.