Editing Army Staff Identification Badge

{{Short description|United States Army identification badge}}
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{{Infobox award
| name             = Army Staff Identification Badge
| image            = United States Army Staff Identification Badge.png
| image_size       = 175px
| type             = [[Identification badges of the Uniformed Services of the United States|Identification badge]]
| awarded_for      = One year of service while assigned to the [[United States Department of the Army|Army Staff]].
| presenter        = [[Chief of Staff of the United States Army|Chief of Staff of the Army]]
| eligibility      = [[Officer (armed forces)|officer]]s and [[Sergeant major|sergeants major]] assigned to authorized positions at Headquarters, [[United States Department of the Army|Department of the Army]].
| former name      = Army General Staff Identification Badge
| status           = Currently awarded
| description      = The [[Great Seal of the United States|Arms of the United States]] in gold with the stripes of the shield to be enameled white and red and chief of the shield and the sky of the glory to be enameled blue, superimposed on a five-pointed black enameled star; in each reentrant angle of the star are three green enameled laurel leaves.
| established      = July 28, 1933
| firstawarded     =
| individual       =
| higher           =
| same             =
| lower            =
| related          = [[Headquarters Air Force Badge]] and [[Commandant Staff Badge]]
}}
The '''Army Staff Identification Badge''' is an [[Identification badges of the Uniformed Services of the United States|identification badge]] awarded by the [[Chief of Staff of the United States Army|Chief of Staff of the Army]] to [[Officer (armed forces)|officers]], warrant officers, and enlisted soldiers assigned to authorized positions at Headquarters, [[United States Department of the Army|Department of the Army]].<ref name="DAMemo">[http://www.hqda.army.mil/MPSC/Docs/672_1.pdf DA Memo 672-1, Eligibility criteria for wear and permanent issue] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060721195347/http://www.hqda.army.mil/MPSC/Docs/672_1.pdf |date=July 21, 2006 }}</ref>

==History==
General [[Douglas MacArthur]] first proposed an Army General Staff Badge in 1931, but it was not until 1933 that the [[United States War Department|War Department]] authorized it.  The badge has remained unchanged in appearance since it was first created, but the name was changed in 1982 from the ''Army General Staff Identification Badge'' to the ''Army Staff Identification Badge'', and the eligibility criteria have evolved.<ref>[http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/badges/ArmyStaffIDBadge.htm The Institute of Heraldry - Army Staff Identification Badge] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080401121931/http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/badges/ArmyStaffIDBadge.htm |date=April 1, 2008 }}</ref>

On a United States Army uniform, the Army Staff Identification Badge is worn centered on the right breast pocket; however, per ALARACT 203/2010 wear of the Army Staff Identification Badge is authorized on the left breast pocket when worn in conjunction with a deployment CSIB ([[Combat Service Identification Badge]]) <ref>[https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/pdf/r670_1.pdf Army Regulation 670-1, Wear and Appearance of Army Uniforms and Insignia]</ref>

A similar Army Staff Lapel Pin is authorized for civilian employees of the Department of the Army, regardless of grade, who fill an eligible position in an HQDA agency for no less than one year.<ref name="DAMemo"/>

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