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A Pin the Unit Keeps
People reach for military lapel pins when a shared crest should show on every chest in the unit. Years after leaving, someone still orders veteran pins for the people they served with. At a reunion, sailors pass around navy pins of their ship. The same pin fits a ball cap after the tour ends. Once the wearer returns to civilian clothes, the pin can move to a jacket and last for decades.
A unit chooses die struck pins for a plain metal look. A crest with color calls for soft enamel. A crew starts by choosing the symbols it identifies with, such as the unit’s own crest or patch art and a motto the members already know. A silhouette of the ship or aircraft can then sit beside the unit or hull number on the same pin. A crew can add the year or place of a deployment to the design when it wants the pin to show where the unit served.
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Ship
Reunion Pins
At a ship’s reunion, each sailor receives a pin cut as the hull silhouette or the crest, and the association leaves extras at the welcome table. Late arrivals still get one.
Flight
Line Pins
At the close of a deployment, each crew chief receives a pin of the squadron emblem. The pin goes with them to the next assignment as a reminder of who kept the aircraft flying.
Mess
Night Pins
A squadron orders its own pin when members want symbols that matter to them and to the squadron. On mess night, the unit gives each member that pin before dinner begins. Members wear it on a jacket at later gatherings.
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Units and veterans often ask these questions while they choose a metal and a backing.
Military pins are custom metal pins built around a unit’s own crest or its motto. Some copy a ship’s design, and others use an emblem drawn for that group. Service members wear them on a jacket or a ball cap, and veterans bring that pin to a reunion. The outline can trace a badge or a ship’s hull.
The minimum order is 100 pins. Larger quantities bring the price per pin down. One design can vary in color or finish within a batch, so half the pins might have a blue field and half a white one.
Yes, a photo of the old pin is enough for a designer to redraw it.
Die struck gives a plain all-metal look with an antique finish that brings out the detail. A crest in several colors works best in enamel, either set into recesses below the metal or polished flush with it. A magnet on the reverse holds the pin and leaves the cloth intact.
Yes, we make them in the United States through our USA-made rush pins. Each of those pins is printed on a stock metal blank, with no enamel, no struck metal, no custom outline and no moving parts.
Sequential numbering puts a different number on each pin in the run. A back stamp can mark the reverse beside that number. Both can be applied to the same pin.
Production takes 3½-4 weeks after the proof is approved, plus a few days in transit. A buyer with an event date should tell their rep that date up front. Spinners and sliders take longer than the standard production time, since those parts move.