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Is the non-nylon, "real" (i.e. 10% gold, 90% something else) gold braid still worn by some officers in the navy? I think that I had seen it on some very nice looking shoulder boards this summer, but I didn't ask and I am not sure if it was just a particularly good-looking bit of yellow nylon.
I know dress instructions specifies yellow nylon and says somewhere that anything not specifically authorised is not authorised, but I thought maybe this was one of those cases where practice does not follow dress instructions (like the nametags on service mess dress, No2B).
To stifle any confusion before the questions are posted, I am not so ignorant as to wonder if the executive curl is being worn on service dress. I am merely talking of the material itself, the shapes I saw were straight bars, just like the regular rank insignia.
I know dress instructions specifies yellow nylon and says somewhere that anything not specifically authorised is not authorised, but I thought maybe this was one of those cases where practice does not follow dress instructions (like the nametags on service mess dress, No2B).
To stifle any confusion before the questions are posted, I am not so ignorant as to wonder if the executive curl is being worn on service dress. I am merely talking of the material itself, the shapes I saw were straight bars, just like the regular rank insignia.