Distinctive Unit Insignia, 125th Forward Support Battalion
Distinctive Unit Insignia, 46th Engineer Battalion(Combat)(Heavy)
Private(PV2)
Private First Class(PFC)
Specialist(SPC)
(from top, left to right):
Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement
Medal(w/1 Oak Leaf Cluster), Good Conduct
Medal, National Defense
Service Medal, Southwest Asia
Service Medal(w/ 3 service stars), Humanitarian
Service Medal, Army Service
Ribbon, Army
Overseas Service Ribbon, Liberation of
Kuwait Medal(Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), Liberation of
Kuwait Medal(Government of Kuwait)
Valorious Unit Award, Meritorious Unit Commendation.
U.S. military decorations are worn in order of precedence from the wearer's right to left, and have precedence over foreign decorations. Subsequent awards of the same award are noted with devices worn on the ribbon. Individual awards are worn over the wearer's left breast pocket(on the male uniform jacket). Unit awards are worn over the right breast pocket. A soldier wears a unit award as long as he or she is assigned to the unit that received the award. If the soldier was assigned to the unit when the award was awarded, then he or she will wear the award for the rest of his or her military career.
When a soldier is assigned to a unit, he or she will wear a patch on the left sleeve of the dress and field uniforms identifying the major command of assignment. When a soldier is reassigned, the patch will be changed accordingly. However, if the soldier serves with that unit in wartime, then he or she can wear the unit patch on the right sleeve of the dress and field uniforms for the remainder of his or her career. This is commonly called a combat patch. If the soldier has wartime service more than once, than he or she can choose which combat patch to wear.
A soldier is assigned to a branch when he or she completes training in a military occupational specialty(MOS). An enlisted soldier will wear a brass disk depicting the branch insignia on the left collar of the dress uniform, and a disk on the right collar with the letters "U.S". Centered just below the pocket of the dress uniform(for male soldiers), the soldier will wear a regimental insignia for the branch.(I have posted both the Corps of Engineers and Ordnance Corps insignia here because my MOS was transferred from Corps of Engineers to Ordnance.)
On the epaulets of the dress uniform, a soldier will wear Distinctive Unit Insignia identifying the unit of assignment. This changes with reassignment.
Enlisted soldiers wear their rank on both sleeves of the dress uniform jacket, and when I was a soldier, on each lapel of the field uniform. Junior enlisted also wear their insignia on the lapels of the green dress shirt worn under the dress jacket. Noncommissioned officers, warrant officers, and commissioned officers wear their rank on the epaulets of the green dress shirt.