Do soldiers in the U.S. Army still have emblems on their uniforms designating their rank?
I know this is not the best time in the world to notice this, but for some time now I’ve seen that soldiers in the US Army wear camouflage uniforms that seemingly have no indication of rank on either their sleeves, lapels, or the berets that have replaced the square baseball type hats of old. Am I just missing something, or is that now a security measure in order to protect the high ranking officers?
Like Boli said, the current uniform uses a small patch in the center chest. We also wear the same patch on our patrol cap or helmet.
Only officers wear their rank on the beret, enlisted wear their unit crest.
We do not generally remove our rank in combat, with all the gear attached to our armor, it is difficult to make out from a distance, and an enemy can generally tell the person in charge since they are the ones shouting orders and pointing things out to the rest of the troops.
They don’t wear rank in the field. High rank makes people a target and people in their squad should know who the people of rank are without the need of identification patches. They have a little patch that goes on their collar in front of their throat stuck on by Velcro so it can be put on and taken off with ease.
We have a little velcro patch on our chest for rank.
Here you see where it is for my Command Sergeant Major:
http://www.usarj.army.mil/organization/10asg/csm.aspx
For our class A’s, you see my commander here has it on his shoulder:
http://www.usarj.army.mil/organization/10asg/cdr.aspx
I would think as a civilian that people during war could care less about what is decorated on their uniform, kind of like get dressed and get going we have work to do. Keep it simple and not mess w/ time that could be used in other things like making sure you’re all still alive.