The A-Team Season 1 Episode 14

During the funeral scene, the overseas service bars can be seen on the right sleeve of each member of the A-team. Each bar represents six months of overseas service. Hannibal has five bars, Murdock has three, Face has two, and B.A. has three. B.A. also has two hash marks on his left sleeve, indicating two enlistments. The rest of the team would not have these marks, as they are officers, not enlisted men. The black stripe on the sleeve and the black stripe down the outside of each trouser leg also identify them as officers, as do their shoulder insignia: a silver bar for Face as a first lieutenant, double silver bars for Murdock as a captain, and the silver oak leaf for Hannibal as a lieutenant colonel.

On B.A.'s uniform (during the funeral), his insignia is not that of a staff sergeant, but of a "Specialist 6." Specialists held the same rank and pay grade as NCOs (non-commissioned officers, from corporal to sergeant major), but while the NCOs had command responsibilities, the specialists did not. The Specialist 6 rank is at the same level as a staff sergeant. The army specialist positions were eventually phased out by 1985; only one specialist rank remains in the army today, at the same level and pay grade as corporal.