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This answer comes from an old Marine only vaguely familiar with Navy tradition.

Traditionally those sailors who had served aboard a submarine were entitled to wear a gold earring in their right ear. As late as the mid-1970s this was the case, and this privilege was even extended to Marines who had served as ships company aboard a sub.

It was not a specific force. It was part of Navy tradition that a sailor was entitled to wear a single gold ring if he had survived a ship being sunk. So if your ship had been sunk and you survived, you could wear an earring.

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