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Secret Service Pins and Badges
Everybody wears a pin. The Secret Service issues them to the Senior Staff of the White House, the President's Staff and the Vice President's staff.
They rotate the shape and design every 4 years.
They rotate the color of the pin on a weekly basis based on what is going on that week. If there is a big event they may issue a specific color to the people working that event.
The colors can be black, blue, red, green, light blue, yellow
It's primary purpose is for visual identification at a distance. This has gotten less important however because everyone is now wearing pins. It does in a crisis help to signal who's friend and who's foe.
Protectees are given pins but no one ever wears it.
Event Photo IDs
For certain events.....the Inauguration, DNC, RNC we create event specific photo IDs......this would not be one of those events......(Re: funeral at St. Barths)
Similar to the State of the Union speech, Secret Service would rely on our hard pin system for identification.
CIA Event Pins
The CIA has permanent Hard Pins, which are distinct from Secret Service, but are recognized by Secret Service (as do the WH Staff, Governor's security, the Military, etc) many pins to learn when you are new.....a photo book of them all is kept in each command post.
They are worn on the lapel of the armed agents that protect the CIA Director, etc......if Winter could convince Secret Service that he needed to be armed at this event, he would be required to wear his pin or would be denied admittance.......if he is covert, he would leave his gun behind.......maybe, if he had a lot of juice, we would give him a staff pin so he could blend in - but then, no gun.
