The US military's rank structure is a complex language of stripes, stars, and titles. In this definitive guide, we decode the ...

Last week we learned all about enlisted ranks, but that is only one part of the military population. Like the enlisted ranks, officer ranks can be grouped into categories — commissioned officers and ...

This article by Alison Buckholtz originally appeared on the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) website. Lauren Hope is a self-described "military history nerd" who never imagined that she ...

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FORT SILL, Oklahoma (Sept. 4, 2019) -- The Army's nomenclature for them is shoulder sleeve insignia, abbreviated as SSI, but nobody ever calls them by their right name. To the hoi polloi, they will ...

America’s newest military branch continues to pay homage to “Star Trek” with its enlisted rank insignia, which look unmistakably like something that series creator Gene Roddenberry would have come up ...

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Second Lt. Molly James is embarking on a new life since her husband, 2nd Lt. Luke James, was killed in Iraq and she was left with a 6-week-old baby. On Friday, Sept. 25, at ...

The military's newest branch -- the Space Force-- unveiled what its rank insignia will look like with a social media post from its highest enlisted official Monday. Chief Master Sergeant of the Space ...

The Indian Army follows a well-defined hierarchical rank structure that governs command, leadership, and career progression.