In most military units (i.e., battalion, regiment, and brigade), the operations officer carries the same rank as the executive officer (XO), but would obviously rank third in the unit's chain of command while the other staff officers are one rank lower.
This title is a cover of A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation) as made famous by Marty Robbins. 1  Tempo: 114.9 BPM. 2  In the same key as the original: Dâ­, D. 3  This song ends without fade out.  Duration: 2:33 - Preview at: 0:58.
It is based on the true story of a convict returning from jail. Levine and Brown got the story from a 1971 article in The New York Post, and changed some of the details. It was really a white handkerchief around the tree, but they made it a yellow ribbon because it made for a better song. A song of the same name was used in the 1949 John Wayne movie She Wore A Yellow Ribbon. This is probably where Levine and Brown got the idea for the yellow ribbon. The yellow ribbon became a National symbol in 1980 when Americans put them on trees to remember the hostages being held in Iran. Ten years later, a group called Visual AIDS convinced people attending the Tony Awards to wear small red ribbons as a symbol of AIDS awareness.