First Sergeant, E8wears insignia of 3 chevrons and 3 rockers but has more authority than Master Sergeant. One small diamond resides in the space of the rockers and chevrons. Sergeant Major, E9wears 3 chevrons and 3 rockers. A small 5-pointed star resides inside the space of the rockers and...
One of Aarons’s best-known photos, a 1955 portrait of C.Z. Guest and her son in Palm Beach. (Slim Aarons//Getty Images) Capa, Mydans, and Pyle were civilian journalists covering the war, but Aarons was an enlisted man—Staff Sergeant George Aarons, to be precise—and he ...