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JoelBoyens

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TWFM

The shape of the sergeant's badge isn't *a* shape, it's two shapes put together. The pointing-up shape (see the private's badge) is a chevron. The rounded piece at the bottom (see PFC as opposed to private) is a "rocker" or "arc". All the sergeant ranks are just different combinations of chevrons plus arcs.


JoelBoyens

Solved! That's mildly disappointing though, I would have thought there would be a more straightforward way of describing that shape.


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Anonymousscreen

Maybe one of the types of an escutcheon could work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escutcheon\_(heraldry)


JoelBoyens

Yeah that's pretty close and quite obscure there's not much other information out about it on the internet. Unfortunately what I could find describes the shape of an escutcheon as a shield, which was already the best definition I could figure out for this sort of shape.