From October 1955 to June 1965, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) implemented a military rank system for ten years, and produced various collar badges for various armies and branches of the armed forces to show the types of occupations that distinguish the types of servicemen of the armed forces and arms. As everyone knows, this kind of overly cumbersome and detailed military and military insignia is not to say that many people in those days could not understand it, and modern people are even more ignorant of it. Just based on the appearance of the military rank symbol, you may be ignorant and able to guess how many armies and arms.
At that time, the People's Liberation Army had five major branches of the armed forces and more than a dozen branches of the armed forces, and each branch of the military had its own special collar flower (logo). When an officer wears epaulettes and collar badges, the epaulettes indicate the rank of the officer (commander and lieutenant), and the collar flower on the collar badge indicates the distinction and specific work of the army and the armed forces. Due to the large number of armies and arms in those years, there were all kinds of collar flower symbols. In particular, there are several kinds of collar flower logos within a military and military branch, which are even more dazzling and I don't know why.
As a layman or other military or military branches, you may be able to analyze your identity from the pattern on the collar badge. Like the car pattern of the automobile soldier, the tank pattern of the armored soldier, the red cross pattern of the medical soldier, the pattern of the naval anchor chain, etc., you can guess what kind of army and branch of the army is at a glance.
However, the compilation patterns of some military and military collar badges make people see in the clouds, and they can't figure it out for a while, which is very brain-burning. You are like an artillery soldier with two crossed "ancient cannon barrels" pattern, a technical soldier with two crossed "pliers and wrenches" pattern, a physical engineer with two crossed "sword and halberd" pattern, an anti-chemical warfare soldier with a "flamethrower" pattern, and a radio operator with an "antenna radio wave" pattern.
In those days, not only did each army and branch of the armed forces have its own logo patterns, but some of the armies and arms were also divided into several kinds of logo patterns. For example, the cultural and sports soldiers are divided into different collar badge patterns such as the art troupe, the sports work team, the honor guard and the military band, and the medical soldiers are also divided into military doctors and veterinarians. There are so many collar badge logos, and how many they are, may always be a mystery.
Five-five style sanitary military academy officer uniform
When wearing a five-five-style military uniform and requiring officers to wear both epaulettes and collar badges, what is the military and military branch of each person, those who know how to do it can be clear at a glance, and those who do not know how to do it know half of it. Ordinary people outside the army basically can't read your army, your troops, or what specific jobs you do.
After 1958, the style of the PLA military uniform was adjusted, and officers could not wear epaulettes in peacetime, but only collar badges with military ranks. In this way, the collar badge that originally wore the insignia of the military and the branch was taken down and replaced with the collar badge of the military rank. However, when officers wear ceremonial uniforms when participating in parades, ceremonies, and activities, they still have to wear epaulettes and hang collar badges with the emblems of the military and military branches.
Type 55 armored corps lieutenant uniform