Gents:
When I picked up corporal in the USMC, my father sent me an old pair of his corporal's chevrons---the metal pin worn on the collar with cammies (or a Charlie shirt under a wooly pully). They were no longer regulation---these were wider and had a shallower angle. The NCOIC of the Marine detachment agreed that, on promotion, I would pin on my father's chevrons. Further, the detachment OIC made clear that, so long as I was under his command, I could wear the non-reg chevrons on my collar.
Those chevrons ride as the kilt pin on my desert MARPAT PK.
Even though I served before adoption of the desert MARPAT----that's MY CLAN COLORS right there. The chevron worn as a kilt pin is non-regulation, it is in the rank I held, and it was worn during active duty by both my father and myself.
And it looks damn sharp, too.
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