The Air Corps has its own corps badge mainly worn by Line personnel, while Corps units retain their Corps badge.
When the Western and Eastern soldiers finally met up, the XI and XII Corps soldiers bragged about their crescent and star-shaped corps badges.
On 18 December 1981, HM Queen Elizabeth consented a title change and a new corps badge.
The corps badge is pinned to the tunic lapels.
Maj. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, Hooker's chief of staff, was assigned the task of designing a distinctive shape for each corps badge.
Butterfield also designated that each division in the corps should have a variation of the corps badge in a different color.
The men of the XIII Corps were never designated an official corps badge and therefore never wore any form of a corps badge during the war.
In 1863 the corps badge was introduced in the Army of the Potomac in an attempt to boost morale among the troops; this badge was also added to the cap.
Qualified Support Squadron personnel wear the sand beret with their corps badge.
Before 1994, the Air Corps was considered part of the army and wore army uniforms with distinct corps badges, but the same rank insignia.
