An example with the maker's mark.

Love the Navy badges. The Cam Rahn Bay Comms is nice 

welcome to the forum!

Hi all.   Right now I have 6 different impressions    WW2 Navy Seabee/Philippines invasion  WW2 Glider Infantry  Vietnam Ranger/LRRP Early Vietnam advisor 1770's Colonial Milita  1750's French Milita    I served active duty in the US Army from 09' to 17' and with the 4th Batt 9th Inf Reg.   Right now I'm working on a ww2 paratrooper pathfinder.  And my early nam advisor with finishing touches.  This forum I've been reading for a few years and your guys research has helped me quite a bit with refining my own equipment especially with Vietnam. 

Blah, blah, blah Gear Fanatic are you going to talk this stuff until you are 35 or are you going to join? There is risk yes but the Armed Forces will present you with many opportunities which may only be limited by your attitude. Is there a risk that you will run into really bad leaders yes I saw a few but joining the Navy was the best decision I ever made. Sorry about my brusqueness but I think you are overthinking this and being swayed by negative thinkers.  

I was sitting near Tommy LaSorda in the stands at Dodger Stadium in 1999 after he retired and had him sign a baseball for me.   I then turned to his buddy sitting beside him, and asked him to sign it too.  LaSorda says to me, "you want him to sign it too?" and I replied I did indeed.   His buddy signs it, and says to me, "I've never done that before".   It was Wayne Gretzky  

Hey there Cobra 6. Last year you posted a Fire Rescue patch from the same location I believe, Ansbach  : )

Nice wing. You are correct; it is the "first pattern" or Adams Pattern NS Meyer wings (probably used from about 1919 up to KW). Not to be confused with the pelican beak pattern that first appeared in WWII and was more than likely used past the KW.  There is also a third pattern, pelican beak, and maybe even a 4th (also circa WWII).  This ADAMS style only shows up in some of the early ratings (pilot, observer, balloon series, airship and TO (IIRC)).  Never in the later WWII ratings, like the gunner, bombardier, navigator, alphabet wings). However, senior and command pilot wings also appear in this rating, always made by adding the star or wreath to the pilot wings.   Still, these were popular wings, and I have a few WWII-vintage autobiographical NS Meyer Adams-style wings from guys who got their wings mid- and late-war.     There are some nice threads about these variations scattered throughout the forum   The Adams-style pilot wings are not very rare, and can be found pretty easily. What gets even more interesting is the senior and command pilot variations. For the senior pilot variations, they had different stars (stars on stilts, stars with the stilts added separately, and stars without stilts.  There are a few threads where that was broken down to some extent here.     NS Meyer wings... the gift that keeps on giving collectors heart burn!  LOL  

The Pioneer pin.

Correct, First Pattern Meyer Pilot. These were produced in Sterling, Brass and Nickel. John