Rank designators

Usage examples of chevrons.

Zim had tried out all of the older men as temporary non-coms first and I had inherited a brassard with chevrons on it a couple of days before when our squad leader had folded up and gone to hospital.

After I got my chevrons I simply had to get things straight with Ace, because Jelly kept me on as assistant section leader.

Like boot chevrons, this is an uncomfortable honor, but in less than two days my own call came.

And there beyond I see the red and silver of the Worsleys of Apuldercombe, who like myself are of Hampshire lineage, Close behind us is the moline cross of the gallant William Molyneux, and beside it the bloody chevrons of the Norfork Woodhouses, with the amulets of the Musgraves of Westmoreland.

The outer wall was only the height of a tall man, but a circle of stone pillars supported the sloping roof, carved with spirals and triple knots, chevrons and wound about with twisted bands of colour.

I wished that I were back in the drop room of the Rog, with not too many chevrons and an after-chow bull session in full swing.

These boot chevrons didn't mean muchmostly the privilege of being chewed out for whatever your squad did as well as for what you did yourselfand they could vanish as quickly as they appeared.

Several recruits resigned that evening and I thought about it but didn't because I had those silly boot chevrons and hadn't been busted yet.

In the first place I had been busted out of my boot chevrons, not over what I did but over something one of my squad did when I wasn't even around .

The day I goofed I had simulated sergeant's chevrons as a simulated section leader and was armed with simulated A-bomb rockets to use in simulated darkness against a simulated enemy.

Brumby is dead and Naidi bought the farm next to his and I'm simply glad that they both got their chevrons and were wearing them that day on Planet P when nothing went according to plan.