1859 For the United States Marine Corps, 1859 marks the year of the modern chevron as we know it today. The Uniform Regulations of that year established the silk lace pointed chevrons. The regulation stated that chevrons:
On my quest to find my yearbook I thought it would be easy. Boy, was I wrong. I did the ususal things that everyone does when trying to find something.
"The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis." --Adm. Karl Doenitz, of the German Kriegsmarine
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