REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE

UNIFORM
FOR COMMISSIONED OFFICERS, WARRANT OFFICERS,

AND ENLISTED MEN OF THE

REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE OF

THE UNITED STATES





TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

Washington, November 10, 1908.



The following regulations shall govern the uniforms for commissioned officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Revenue-Cutter Service, and shall be strictly complied with. They shall be effective January 1, 1909, and all officers and men on the active list shall be fully provided with the uniform herein prescribed not later than March 31, 1909.



George B. Costelyou,

Secretary.


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COMMISSIONED OFFICERS


GENERAL REGULATIONS

1. All persons belonging to the Revenue-Cutter Service shall conform strictly to such regulations for uniforms as are published by the department. Every person belonging to the service is strictly forbidden to wear any uniform other than that to which his grade entitles him. No decoration received from a foreign government shall be worn.

2. (a) Medals and badges awarded to officers by the Government shall be worn with full dress and dress, and may be worn with evening dress (A), on the left breast, the tops of the ribbons forming a horizontal line between the second and third buttons of the frock coat and in a similar position on the evening dress coat. Such medals and badges will precede all badges of military societies (from wearer?s right to left) and shall be worn in place in the order of occurrence of the occasions which they respectively commemorate (from the wearer?s right to left).

(b) A section of the ribbons of medals and badges awarded to officers by the Government, 5/16 inch long and of the full width of the ribbon, may be worn with the evening dress coat upon occasions when medals and badges are not to be worn, and may be worn with the blue service coat upon occasions of cere?mony such as parades with enlisted men on shore; to be worn in a horizontal line in the position prescribed for medals and badges; the ribbon either to be sewn on or to be pinned on, provided no part of the METAl bar or pin be visible.

(c) The distinctive badges adopted by military societies of men who served in the armies and navies of the United States In the war of the Revolution, the war of 1812, the Mexican war, the war of the rebellion, and the Spanish-American war, respectively, may be worn on all occasions of ceremony by officers and enlisted men who are members of said organizations.

3. (a) Officers are forbidden to wear any part of their uniform, except the overcoat (without shoulder marks) and the boat cloak, with civilian clothes.

(b) Officers on winter cruising duty (December 1 to April 1) and those serving on board vessels cruising in Bering Sea and Alaskan waters, will be permitted to wear, in the discretion of the commanding officer, when such vessels are underway, or at anchor in unfrequented places, blue woolen sweaters or blue flannel shirts under uniform service coats and fur overcoats instead of the service overcoats. A woolen or fur cap may be worn by officers under like circumstances.

4. Immediately after a vessel is put into