grade insignia

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

grade insignia - V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service; "they earned their stripes in Kuwait"chevron, stripes, stripebadge - an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.); "they checked everyone's badge before letting them in"armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"