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Old 16-01-16, 12:42 PM
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Hi Bruce, Yes there is more to the question. My understanding is that shoulder rank was moved to the cuff to lessen the chance of being targeted by snipers. Additionally, somewhere there was an indication that wearing equipment, slings obscured the rank. And at the end of the war there was an increasing practice of wearing the rank insignia on the shoulder strap. However, the LAC doc is one of the early indications (it came from the OC MD 2) of what the difference was supposed to be.
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