Wear and Appearance of Army Uniforms and Insignia

or full-time National Guard, or AGR duty will wear the uniform and insignia prescribed for personnel in the Active
Army. Army National Guard and USAR personnel are authorized to wear the Army uniform on the following
occasions.
b. When ARNG AND USAR personnel are within the limits of the United States or its possessions. Army National
Guard and USAR personnel not on active duty may wear the Army uniform only as follows.
(1) When participating in reserve training assemblies (inactive duty training), exercises, conferences, or ceremonies
in an official capacity as members of the ARNG or the USAR under competent orders.
(2) When engaged in military instruction or in attendance as a student under appropriate orders at any school or
course of instruction under the auspices of the armed forces or the reserve components.
(3) When instructors at an educational institution conducting courses of instruction approved by the armed forces, or
when responsible for military discipline at like institutions.
(4) When attending social functions or informal gatherings of a military character. All current and former soldiers
will conform to the wear and appearance standards in this regulation while wearing the uniform under the provisions of
this chapter.
(5) When enrolled as undergraduates in educational institutions in which there is an active ROTC unit or an
established USAR unit. Individuals may wear the uniforms and insignia of their grade only upon such occasions
expressly desired or authorized by the professor of military science, or other proper official of the school. Members of
the USAR attending institutions at which military training is considered as required curricular activity are authorized,
and may be required to wear, the uniform prescribed by the institution, including the insignia of any grade or rating
held in the student unit.
(6) Army National Guard military technicians who are required to wear the uniform as a condition of their
employment will wear the uniform for their federally recognized grades, as prescribed by the Adjutant General of their
state, commonwealth, territory, or district.
(7) U. S. Army Reserve technicians who are also members of the U.S. Army Reserve may wear the Army uniform
at their option while performing in their civil service status.
c. When outside the limits of the United States or its possessions. Army National Guard and USAR personnel not on
active duty and outside the limits of the United States or its possessions will not wear the Army uniform, unless
granted authority by HQDA. However, on occasions of military ceremony or other military functions in a foreign
country, ARNG and USAR personnel may be granted authority to wear the Army uniform after they have their status
accredited by the nearest Army attaché. In a foreign country that does not have an Army attaché, however, ARNG and
USAR personnel must obtain authority to wear the Army uniform for a specific occasion from the military authorities
of the country concerned.
d. Army National Guard personnel also may wear the Army uniform in the performance of State service, when
authorized to do so by their State Adjutant General.
e. United States Army Reserve personnel.
(1) Warrant officers and enlisted personnel serving on active duty who also hold commissions in the USAR may
wear the uniform indicative of their grade in the USAR only as follows.
(a) When undergoing authorized voluntary training designed for Reserve officers which they are authorized to take,
and while traveling to and from that training.
(b) When attending meetings or functions of associations formed for military purposes, of which membership is
composed largely or entirely of officers of the United States Army, or of former members of the Army.
(2) Warrant officers and enlisted personnel serving on active duty who also hold commissions in the USAR may not
wear the uniform indicative of their grade in the USAR as follows.
(a) When in an office of the Department of Defense.
(b) When they will be in association with troops of the active Army or of the ARNG when called into Federal
service, except when the individual is on active duty as a Reserve officer, or as otherwise authorized in paragraph (1),
above.
30–3. Wear of the uniform by retired personnel
a. Personnel who will be advanced to a higher grade upon retirement have the option of wearing the insignia of that
grade thereafter.
b. Retired personnel on active duty will wear their uniform and insignia in the same manner as prescribed for
personnel in the Active Army of corresponding grade and branch.
c. Retired personnel not on active duty may wear either the uniform reflecting their grade and branch on the date of
their retirement, or the uniform for personnel in the Active Army of corresponding grade and branch, when appropriate,
but may not intermix the two uniforms. Personnel will wear the grade as shown on the retired grade of rank line on the
retirement order.
d. Retired personnel not on active duty are not authorized to wear shoulder sleeve insignia, except as follows:
(1) Personnel performing instructor duties at an educational institution conducting courses of instruction approved
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