Word: insignia
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Medical Enlisted Men's Reserve Corps, and will be among the first of the United States Army corps to reach France. The ambulance units will also give substantial assistance to the French ambulance service, and will, furthermore, serve as Harvard units through the duration of the war. Some insignia designating the distinctive corps will be given to the members...
...Medical Enlisted Men's Reserve Corps, and will be one of the first United States Army contingents to reach France. The ambulance units will also give substantial assistance to the French ambulance service, and will furthermore serve as Harvard units during the duration of the war. Some insignia designating the distinctive corps will be given to the members...
...earnest, though unofficial desire of the War Department that the men who will compose these American ambulance units shall be of the highest class mentally and morally, and it is hoped that the leading colleges will contribute entire units which may be kept together and perhaps be given distinctive insignia. Fourteen hundred men have been asked for at once. All of the larger Eastern colleges save Harvard are already actively co-operating with the undertaking, and it appears that the desired number will be rapidly recruited. There yet remains, however, the possibility of forming a Harvard unit which will...
...Badges and medals: (a) No insignia except that prescribed will be worn. (b) Tactical instructors and cadets may wear badges and medals which have been awarded by the United States Government, but no other. (c) The distinctive badge for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps is worn on the upper part of the left forearm of both the service coat and the olive drab shirt. The design is embroidered in white on olive drab cloth as follows...
...Insignia of Rank: (a) Insignia of rank will be of gilt for instructors and white metal for cadet officers. These insignia in the shape of circular flat disks for lieutenants and captains and flat diamond shape for majors will be worn on the shoulder straps of the coat, as follows: 2d Lieutenant, one disk on each shoulder strap; 1st Lieutenant, two disks on each shoulder strap. (b) When the shirt is worn without the coat, the insignia of rank etc., will be worn on the shirt collar as follows: I nsignia of rank on right. Collar ornament...