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 cap ribbon worn by enlisted men of the Naval Militia bears the
words “Naval Militia” followed by the authorized abbreviation for the
state or territory to which they belong thus, for the Naval Militia of
Massachusetts,
NAVAL MILITIA, MASS.
When United States ships are assigned for the use of the Naval Militia
of any state such men of the organization as the Governor of the state
may designate may wear on their cap ribbons the name of the ship so
assigned with the distinguishing mark for the naval militia before and
after the name of the ship.
_The Naval Reserve_ enlisted men wear the same uniform as that
prescribed for the various grades of the regular service, with the
exceptions that all gilt buttons worn on the uniforms are of the
special design prescribed for the Naval Reserve, that is, having upon
them in relief a plain vertical anchor surrounded by the letters U. S.
N. R., and the cap ribbons bear the words
U. S. NAVAL RESERVE FORCE
_The Navy Sword._—The sword carried by all officers of the Navy has a
bright steel cut and thrust blade from twenty-six to thirty-two inches
long depending upon the height of the wearer, having a half-basket
hilt and a grip covered with white shark skin wrapped with a spiral of
gilt wire, the hilt being of brass gilded. It is carried in a scabbard
of black leather with gilded tip ferrule and gilded straps and rings
for attaching the slings which attach it to the belt.
The belt for naval officers is closed at the front and center by a
circular belt plate ornament with a raised design of a wreath enclosing
a circle of rope one inch in diameter inside of which is an American
eagle on a horizontal anchor above a pyramid of cannon balls, the space
between the rope circle and the eagle and anchor design having thirteen
stars in a circle.
_Identification tag._—Every officer and enlisted man of the U. S.
Navy on active duty is required to wear an identification tag, which
consists of an oval plate of monel metal, one and one-quarter inches
by one and one-half inches in size, suspended from the neck by a monel
metal wire encased in a cotton sleeve.
On one side of the tag is etched the finger print of the right index
finger of the officer or man wearing the tag and on the other side, for
officers the letters “U. S. N.,” the surname and initials, the rank and
the date of commission or appointment; for enlisted men the letters “U.
S. N.,” the surname and initials, the month, day and year of enlistment
expressed in numerals thus “1.5.1916.” and the month, day and year of
birth similarly expressed.
A copy of the finger print of each officer and enlisted man in the
Naval Service is also kept on file at the Bureau of Navigation of the
Navy Department in Washington, D. C.
These tags are for the purpose of identification in case of death or
wounds so serious as to produce unconsciousness.
UNIFORMS OF ENROLLED WOMEN, U. S. NAVAL RESERVE FORCE
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