File:Example US Army Special Forces Recognition Bars-Historical.svg

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Summary

Description

Drawings of the U.S. Army Special Forces recognition bars and manner of wear. Worn on the green beret by special forces support soldiers that had not yet earned their Special Operations ("S") Special Qualification Identifier (SQI) from the mid-1960s through 1984.

References:

U.S. Army Special Forces 1952–84, Bloomsbury Publishing, by Gordon L. Rottman, dated 20 September 2012, ISBN 9781782004462, last accessed 29 March 2019
U.S. Army Regulation 670-1 (OBSOLETE): Wear and appearance of Army uniforms and insignia (Part 1 and Part 2), Department of the Army—via Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library—, dated 1 November 1981, last accessed 13 April 2019

Date

21 January 2021

Source

Created by English Wikipedia editor User:McChizzle using images from current and historical special forces beret flashes and recognition bars found on the World Wide Web and published reference book, such as:

Author

User:McChizzle

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This image is in the public domain in the United States because it contains materials that originally came from a United States Armed Forces badge or logo. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	20:22, 15 March 2022	333 × 450 (385 KB)	McChizzle	Re-added Training Group Recognition Bar
	00:11, 22 January 2021	333 × 405 (354 KB)	McChizzle	Updated
	17:48, 12 December 2020	333 × 405 (352 KB)	McChizzle	Updated 5th SFG bar
	12:27, 19 September 2020	333 × 405 (374 KB)	McChizzle	Color corrections
	11:17, 13 June 2020	333 × 405 (353 KB)	McChizzle	Updated layout
	12:12, 13 July 2019	333 × 315 (181 KB)	McChizzle	Updated graphic
	00:59, 16 April 2019	333 × 315 (133 KB)	McChizzle	Corrected color of 10th SFG bar