Drawings of the U.S. Army Special Forces recognition bars and manner of wear. Worn on the green beret by special forces support soldiers that had not yet earned their Special Operations ("S") Special Qualification Identifier (SQI) from the mid-1960s through 1984.

References:

• U.S. Army Special Forces 1952–84 , Bloomsbury Publishing, by Gordon L. Rottman, dated 20 September 2012, ISBN 9781782004462 , last accessed 29 March 2019
• U.S. Army Regulation 670-1 (OBSOLETE): Wear and appearance of Army uniforms and insignia (Part 1 and Part 2) , Department of the Army—via Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library—, dated 1 November 1981, last accessed 13 April 2019