Show HOW TO TELL THE 0 1 RANK OF OFFICERS washington all commissioned ds officers wear a black and gold hat cord on oil the collar of 0 ills his chirt a second lieutenant wears a bronze ornament for the infantry crossed rifles with 0 di the number of ills his regiment in ds the upper tipper angle for cavalry cro crossed sed sabers field artillery crossed cros seil ca cannon uncia coast artillery di it shell on the crossed cannon engineer corps a turreted castle eastle 0 0 ie signal corps crossed flags 0 0 with a flaming torch medical I 1 corps ft a wand entwined by two 0 0 serpents quartermaster c corps 0 aps ds 0 gold key hey crossed with sword and surmounted by a wheel and ss eagle ordnance a bursting 0 shell ile he will wili also wear onee quarter inch stripe around his 0 cur cuff A first lieutenant will wear the same insignia and in addition one single silver bar on 0 each side of his collar on ills his d overcoat he wears a single scroll 0 ol of narrow black braid 0 0 A captain wears two silver 0 bars and a double scroll of braid 0 A major wears the same insignia with mith a gold cold oak leaf on 0 ills his shoulders and three scrolls 0 of braid A lieutenant colonel di wears a silver oak leaf and four 0 scrolls of braid a colonel colo neli a silver spread eagle and five scrolls of braid 0 A bri brigadier gadler general wears a 0 silver star a major general two 0 silver stars a lieutenant general eral two stars with a coat of 0 arms of the united states between the noncommissioned officers 9 0 0 wear chevrons che clie above the elbow 0 to denote their rank a corporal two chevrons che sergeant three 0 first sergeant throe three with a diamond 0 or lozenge la in the center 0 9 |