service stripe

He saw the service stripes and the two medals on the breast, and his eyes brightened.

He’d have a grosbeak ‘skun a mile’!” gasped Stud, following the direction of her glance, with a virtuous consciousness of his own cave-soiled khaki, moderately lit by merit badge and service stripe.

“No,” he replied gratefully, “it’s a service stripe.”

About the mascot's chest the Wildcat adjusted the O.D. shirt with its three service stripes.

Mother wailed that all the deck-chairs had been taken; Father found mountains of chairs and flipped a couple of them open as though he were a steward with service stripes.