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
Women are enrolled in the U. S. Naval Reserve Force in the ratings of
Chief Yeoman, Yeoman, First, Second or Third Class, and Landsman for
Training, and assigned clerical duties on shore. They are required to
wear blue or white uniforms consisting of a Norfolk style coat and
tailor-made skirt of blue navy serge or white drill, a white beach
cloth shirt-waist and black navy neckerchief, black hose and shoes with
blue skirt and white ones with white skirt, and a flat brimmed blue
felt or white straw sailor hat with the regulation Naval Reserve cap
ribbon.
_The coat_ has a rolling lapel collar, four medium navy gilt buttons
down the front and three small ones on each cuff, two-inch vertical
plaits from shoulders to lower edge at front and back, a one and
three-quarter inch belt, and on each side below the waist a pocket with
a buttoned flap.
_The skirt_ reaches to within eight inches of the floor and has on each
side of the front a pocket with buttoned flap.
_The waist_ is plain tailored, opens down the front with collar to
admit of being worn buttoned high or folded back, and has one plain
patch pocket on the left side.
_Rating badges_ for Chief Yeoman and for Yeoman, First, Second or Third
Class are worn on the left sleeve above the elbow; on the blue coat
the chevrons are scarlet, eagles and specialty marks white, and on the
white coat chevrons, eagles and specialty marks are all blue.
[Illustration: _Photo. Harris & Ewing, Washington, D. C._
Enrolled Women, U. S. Naval Reserve Force. Blue service uniform]
[Illustration: _Photo. Harris & Ewing, Washington, D. C._
Enrolled Women, U. S. Naval Reserve Force. White service uniform]
[Illustration: SEAL OF THE U. S. MARINE CORPS]
CHAPTER VI
UNIFORMS AND INSIGNIA OF THE U. S. MARINE CORPS
The marines serve both on ship and ashore, while aboard ship their
duties closely approximate those of the sailor in the line of the navy
and while serving ashore their duties are of the same nature as those
of the army soldier, but their uniform is distinctly military in style
and appearance.
Both officers and enlisted men have uniforms of blue cloth
corresponding to those of the navy and worn upon the same occasions,
and the officers have white uniforms to be worn upon the occasions when
officers of the navy wear white, while the enlisted men have no white
uniform coats but wear uniforms of khaki-colored cotton material upon
the occasions when enlisted men of the navy wear white. This khaki
uniform is officially known as “summer field” uniform, but commonly
called “khaki.”
Both officers and men are also provided with a “winter field” uniform
for wear upon active service in the field whenever the weather is too
cold for the khaki uniform. The winter field uniforms and the overcoats
for officers and men are made of woolen cloth of a shade known as
“forestry-green,” a grayish olive green.
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