On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 16:40:05 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/6/2018 4:34 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/6/2018 4:26 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/6/2018 4:21 PM, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 16:01:03 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/6/2018 3:18 PM, John H. wrote:
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:12:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


This guy definitely qualifies.

The stripes on the arm of his jacket are called "hash marks".* Each
stripe indicates completion of four years of service.* This dude
has 11
of them, so he has served for over 44 years.

The Navy uniform "Crow" and hash marks start out as being red in
color.
After 12 years of service and 4 Good Conduct awards they are
changed to
gold.

If you screw up while wearing gold, they go back to red and you start
over again.

https://tinyurl.com/y8ul2sff

https://tinyurl.com/y8uac2z7

So what's his rank. It looks like the Marine is a bit
'underdressed' for the function.



Master Chief.* (E-9)** Highest enlisted rank in Navy, above Senior
Chief
(E-8) and Chief (E-7).

Thanks. My 'underdressed' comment referred to the Marine in the first
photo.



I don't think he's US military.* Ribbons are on the right side of
jacket instead of left.* At first I thought maybe the photo was
reversed but the "Old Salt's" ribbons and metals are on the left side
as US military wears 'em.




Ah!* I was curious so I looked up the wearing of ribbons.* He *may* be
US.* I never knew this.* From Wiki:

"In certain commemorative and/?or memorial circumstances, a relative may
wear the medals or ribbons of a dead relative on the right side of the
chest."


And yet, another possible explanation:

"In the US, individual awards (medals, or the ribbons which represent
them) are worn on the left breast, while unit awards (Presidential Unit
Citation [PUC], Meritorious Unit Citation [MUC], etc.) are worn on the
right breast."



That's the way of the Army. All unit citations on right breast.