<Ummm, officers don't have stripes (except, perhaps, on the dress uniforms, but that doesn't count). :-)> Okay, Jim....what DO they have to show rank on their everyday uniforms? And why doesn't a dress uniform stripe 'count'? I'm a military mother and aunt but I guess I never noticed stripes, or eagles or epaulets or oak leaves or whatever all those guys wear so you know who to salute. SandyO CH #1146 of the Moderate Persuasion