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The straight out solid Green cord is Staff Specialist which would likely be you based on some indications you've made in some of your posts.
Bottle Green with Gray piping cord is Psychological Ops.
Green with yellow piping cord is Military Police.
May I ask, were you issued the solid green cord or, rather, not issued the cord in being authorized to wear it? Perhaps you were also issued instructions or orders not to wear it unless ordered specifically to wear it...and wear it only for the limited time period or occasion specified? If so, written authorization or verbal? You knew somehow you couldn't wear the green cord except for a specific and expressed reason, ne c'est pas?
This should be the cord you reference if you ever actually saw it or got your hands on it. It's a better cord for sure than most of 'em are. The Infantry cord however does not have the firehose tip as a lot of us derided the metal tip on cords when I was in -- most cords had it, some didn't have it.
And we almost always called it a cord. In contrast, an older term, braid, was still in use somewhat when I was in but it had been pretty much discarded. Nobody in my unit, 3 IR TOG ever called it a rope. 3 IR was the first unit issued the blue cord and enlisted lapel brass blue disk inserts.
3 IR TOG was also issued a green cloth tab that we slid onto the shoulder flap and on which the unit gold brass insignia of a colonial era cockade was worn. This was on the winter greens and the summer tans/khakis, and then on the year round greens once they came out. Since Army went to the blue uniform a decade ago the colonial cockade is worn on the chest right side above foreign and other decorations as in this photo:
3d Infantry Regiment was formed and organized June 3, 1784 with the 1st and 2nd IR as the first standing army. Given a standing army was generally unpopular it was called the Legion of the United States. After the War of 1812 the 3 regiments were incorporated as the 3d regiment which had the senior colonel. 3 IR The Old Guard is the oldest active infantry regiment of the Army.
Gen. McDowell noted to President Lincoln, "Mr. President, these are the men who saved your Army at Bull Run." To which Lincoln said, "I have heard of them."
