Word: insigniaed
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...Smuts trailed along, tried to enter the same elevator and was blocked by a line of photographers. A U.S. Army captain pushed a photographer aside, and Smuts eased in. Molotov, painfully embarrassed, bobbed a greeting to Smuts. One of the hard-faced Russian guards peered at Smuts's insignia, twitched an eyebrow at another guard whose expression seemed to say: "How would I know...
...eyes of some of the more confident of our brothers such as "Weeping Walter" Blatt. Of course there always will be people like the local ROTC who would dispute our primacy by having their commissioning the day before ours, but consolation will lie in our proud oak leaf insignia which, together with the Supply Corps, is 150 years old this Friday and which, incidentally, was adopted in 1785 in honor of the oaken fighting ships on which the Corps first served
...location of their camp, which was 25 miles inside the Jap lines on the Sixth's left flank. The men who had rescued them were 286 Filipinos and 121 picked men of the U.S. 6th Ranger Battalion. The squat, handsome man wearing a lieutenant colonel's insignia and a shoulder holster over his sweat-stained shirt was Henry Andrew Mucci, in command...
Naval aviators thought they knew precisely whom to blame for this slight. Never in public, but frequently in tight-lipped private conversation, they have pointed the finger at Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, boss of everything which flies, or floats or walks or rolls under Navy insignia. "Ernie"' King, they feel, has never given aviation the recognition it rates as the punch of the modern U.S. Navy...
...Leahy joined Admiral King in adding another half-inch stripe to the one two-inch and three half-inch stripes on his sleeve, after moving the old ones closer together to avoid crowding at the elbow. (Generals of the Army George C. Marshall and Henry H. Arnold ordered new insignia, but had nothing yet to show their new status...