If he is a second LT it would be a gold colered bar a first Lt would be a silver bar. That would be a good promotion aqnd I would salute either bar. Paul, I still have no idea if my posts get through, It is an expeerience in blind posting. Sandy Olson wrote: > <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 > > > > -- *Thanks Paul, * *Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. - Ronald Reagan *