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28th February 10, 07:48 PM
#17
 Originally Posted by Drac
The latest uniform regs removed all mention of swords for Chiefs in full dress. When I had asked a Chief about it he said the main reason was the cutlass doesn't go through the coat openings on the dress blue jacket. When I asked if they had stop wearing any sword for ceremonies he said that they had moved over to the saber. Doing searches the only thing on the cutlass I can find is that it was declared obsolete in 1949.
He did say the cutlass is still given as a gift just not worn.
If you can find any regs that mention the wear of a cutlass I would appreciate it.
Jim
My understanding is that the only Non-Commissioned Officers in the U.S. military who rate swords are Marine NCOs. Perhaps that's changed and I'm just not aware.
Cordially,
David
Last edited by davidlpope; 1st March 10 at 05:47 AM.
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