Sources disagree as to whether a shoulder board and an epaulette are the same thing.
No shoulder boards were worn on service or fatigue uniforms.
A young man in whites and shoulder boards having a drink, looking bored.
The Archer handed over one of the man's shoulder boards, then a briefcase.
"White shirts, shoulder boards with stripes on them, and they'll be Japanese, probably."
He looked at the contact points and thought-ports running along the shoulder boards of the armor.
He managed to say this despite a mouth that hung open on seeing the General's shoulder boards.
The shoulder boards are almost exactly the same as those used by Soviet officers.
The speaker was an officer with four gold stripes and a star on each of his black shoulder boards.
On the officers' dinner dress white jacket, hard shoulder boards are worn.