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RED BAR AND CHEVRON FOR DOMESTIC SERVICE
Origin
The red bar and chevron was originally adopted by the National
Committee on Volunteer Services at its meeting of December 9, and 10, 1937,
when it was voted that:
Bars and chevrons, bright red in color, shall
be adopted for use in connection with the uni-
forms of the Volunteer Special Services, to
indicate periods of service of the wearers. A
bar shall represent one year's service; a chev-
ron, four years' service.
When first authorized, the red bars and chevrons were to be worn
only by members of Volunteer Special Services. Permission to wear bars and
chevrons could not antedate January 1, 1928 (which is the time when actual
count of hours of service given by volunteers was begun). Furthermore, the
bars and chevrons were worn only on the uniform of the corps in which the
service was given. If a volunteer belonged to one or more corps she wore
bars and chevrons on the corps uniform according to the length of service
in each particular corps. The bars and chevrons were not transferable
from one corps to another. This ruling was revised in 1941, however, when
the Volunteer Special Services General Manual, ARC 415, revised October
1941, provided that if a volunteer transferred from one corps to another,
she was entitled to transfer her bars and chevrons to the uniform of the
new corps in which she was enrolled.
In October 1942, at a meeting of the Volunteer Special Services
staff it was voted to extend the use of the bars and chevrons to unenrolled
volunteers and paid staff:
Whereas, at the December, 1937 meeting of the
National Committee on Volunteer Service, bars
and chevrons, bright red in color, to indicate
periods of service, were adopted for use in
connection with the uniforms of the Volunteer
Services, etc., be it resolved that with the
increased and valuable work of the staff and vol-
unteers not members of a Volunteer Special Serv-
ice Corps the bars and chevrons may also be worn
by them as passed by the National Committee on
Volunteer Service and approved by the Chairman.
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