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A plain rectangular bar worn as a junior officer rank device.
Also known as: Butter bar, Officer bar
A rectangular bar used for junior officer ranks in United States practice — gold for the most junior, silver above it, which is the counter-intuitive part.
A plain rectangular bar worn on the shoulder or collar as a junior commissioned officer rank device in United States armed forces.
United States
Gold marks the more junior rank and silver the more senior, so a single silver bar outranks a single gold one — a reversal of the intuitive ordering that catches out people reading US insignia for the first time.
United States
A plain rectangle, longer than it is tall, worn flat on a collar or shoulder.