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one or two stripes are precursors to one of two paths in the military, one then goes into either a specialty, a technician, with a different patch structure, the other is just more stripes, which roughly equates to management/leadership non-commissioned officer ranks, so yeah more stripes equals more manager attitude.

The Dodge switch was a 250 line manual switchboard I was in charge of. In 1970 cessation of hostilities had only occurred 17 years earlier so it was barely more than combat conditions, we were paid hostile fire pay same as VN, all dirt roads, no dial telephones, etc. The switchboard was replaced by a dial office just as I came back to the states and the roads got paved just before all the Army moved south and turned the DMZ over to the Koreans. I was a draftee (2 year stint) that joined for an additional year to ensure I got to use my previous telephone experience as opposed to combat arms.