Unknown US Badge

[Dr_Shemp]

Hi all,

I bought the attached badge a few months ago and haven't been able to determine exactly what it is. It has the makers mark 'N S Meyer Inc New York' on the reverse and 'Ballou Reg'd' on the butterfly clasps.

I've had a good Google around about the badge - I found this unresolved Reddit Post that suggested it might be an 'Aviation Warfare Systems Operator' badge. I found an example here and whilst they are similar, they're not identical.

Does anyone have any thoughts about what this badge may be? Many thanks for your time.

[Home Guard]

Stumps me! I've tried to find it under nuclear, atomic, space, etc. but no luck,

Terry

[Dr_Shemp]

Hi Terry - I know what you mean, the best results I found on Google were similar, but never the same. Whilst I loosely connected it to the Navy, a lot of the insignia I found were in silver as opposed to gold. Do you know if there is a connection between the colour of a badge and the service it belongs to?

[Home Guard]

Typically Army and Navy insignia are gold and Air Force insignia are silver. But, I cannot say for sure that would always be the case.

The style of the wings and having the atom emblem on your badge imply that it is fairly current, but that is really just assumption on my part.

Terry