Army and Navy Uniforms and Insignia: How to Know Rank, Corps and Service in the Military and Naval Forces of the United States and Foreign CountriesWilliams, Dion
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Army and Navy Uniforms and Insignia: How to Know Rank, Corps and Service in the Military and Naval Forces of the United States and Foreign Countries
Williams, Dion
Armies -- Insignia; Military uniforms; Navies -- Insignia; United States. Army -- Insignia; United States. Navy -- Insignia
The Miscellaneous Division issues the various annual reports, public
health reports and other publications of the service, including the
bulletins of the results of research at the Hygienic Laboratory at
Washington.
The officers of the Public Health Service have titles corresponding to
their duties and rank assimilated to that of the Army and Navy, the
different grades being as follows:
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
Surgeon General.
Assistant Surgeon General.
Senior Surgeon.
Surgeon.
Professor of Hygienic Laboratory.
Passed Assistant Surgeon.
Assistant Surgeon.
Quarantine Inspector.
Acting Assistant Surgeon.
Chaplain.
WARRANT OFFICERS
Interne.
Pharmacist.
Clerk.
ENLISTED MEN
Station Engineer.
Pilot.
Marine Engineer.
First Cook.
Cooks.
Coachman.
Carpenter.
Yardman.
Messenger.
Laundryman.
Surgical Nurse.
Female Nurse.
Night Watchman.
Ship Keeper.
Boatswain.
Coxswain.
Ordinary Seaman.
Fireman.
Coal Passer.
Boy.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS’ UNIFORMS
The commissioned officers of the service are required to have complete
outfits of full dress, dress, olive-drab service, white service and
evening dress uniforms.
_The Full Dress Uniform_ consists of a double-breasted frock coat of
dark blue cloth with two rows of gilt buttons down the front, and a
standing collar trimmed with gold lace braid; dark blue cloth trousers
with gold stripes down the outer leg seams, one and three-quarter
inches wide for Surgeon General, one and one-half inches wide for
Assistant Surgeon General and one inch wide for other officers; a blue
cloth cap with black patent leather visor; black patent leather shoes,
white gloves, and full dress sword belt and sword.
The blue cap has a bell crown, the band being of gold braid one and
one-half inches wide with a narrow stripe of maroon silk through the
center of it and the chin strap worn across the front just above the
visor being of gold braid five-eighths of an inch wide with a narrow
stripe of maroon silk through the center. The edge of the visor is
decorated with gold embroidery, and on the front and center of the cap
the distinctive device of the Public Health Service is embroidered.
The Surgeon General wears gold epaulets on the shoulders of the full
dress coat with the service insignia and the insignia of his rank,
one silver star, embroidered on the top, and the other commissioned
officers have shoulder straps of maroon colored broadcloth on the
shoulders, these straps being trimmed around the edges with a stripe
of gold braid three-quarters of an inch wide and having on them at the
center the insignia of the Public Health Service and between this and
the shoulder end the insignia of rank.
On the sleeves of the full dress coat are stripes of gold lace braid to
indicate the rank of the wearer as follows:
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