four-striper

A recent convert to baseball, Four-Striper McClure is now a rabid fan.

When a four-striper, Captain Theodore Wirth, said that the Academy has its traditions too, the crowded committee room cheered.

"Mr. Secretary," the four-striper argued in his statement, "what all of your officers will demand to know is just how in hell this could happen in the United States Navy."

There the grizzled four-striper touched the golden meteor lightly, then drove his piercing gaze deep into the unflinching eyes of the younger man.

He was decorated again and given the battlewagon of an ailing four-striper.