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
[Illustration: _Copyright, 1908, by Brig. Gen. J. B. Aleshire,
Qr. Master General, U. S. A._
U. S. Army. Noncommissioned officers, olive-drab service uniform
1. Color Sergeant, Infantry 2. First Sergeant, Field Artillery
3. Company Quartermaster Sergeant, Cavalry
4. Sergeant, Signal Corps
5. Sergeant Major, Infantry]
[Illustration: _Copyright, 1908, by Brig. General J. B. Aleshire.
Qr. Master General, U. S. A._
U. S. Army. Enlisted men, Infantry full dress uniform
1. Corporal 2. First Sergeant 3. Private 4. Musician
5. Sergeant]
_The service uniform_ for enlisted men of the Army consists of a single
breasted sack coat of olive-drab woolen or cotton material, extending
to about ten inches below the waist, with a standing collar, buttoned
down the front with one row of five regulation bronze buttons, having
four outside patch pockets, one on each breast and on each side below
the waist line, each pocket being closed with a shield shaped flap
buttoned by a small regulation button, and a strap of the same material
as the coat on each shoulder sewed in at the shoulder seam and buttoned
at the collar end by a small regulation button; breeches of the same
material as the coat, khaki-colored canvas leggings, tan leather shoes;
and a service cap or service hat. The service cap is a bell-crowned cap
with a sloping tan leather visor and a tan leather chin strap across
the front above the visor secured by a small bronze button at each
end of the visor. The service hat is the brown felt wide brimmed hat
universally called the “campaign hat” and is worn with what is known as
the “Montana peak,” that is, brought to a point at the center of the
top of the crown by making four dents in the top of the crown. A hat
cord of the distinctive color of the corps or arm of the service to
which the wearer belongs is worn around the base of the crown of the
service hat. During war the steel helmet is worn when on duty in the
trenches or on the battle line. In garrison the tan leather belt is
worn with the service uniform, and in the field the webbing cartridge
belt of the same color as the uniform is worn.
Mounted men wear spurs and tan leather leggings with this uniform.
In the tropics and in hot weather the service uniform of cotton
material is worn, and at drills and in the field, the coat is sometimes
dispensed with and the olive-drab flannel shirt is worn.
The overcoat and gloves of olive-drab wool are worn when the weather
requires.
During time of war this is the only uniform worn by the men or carried
by them into the field of operations.
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