Rating badges, collar devices and rank tabs at the NEX Orlando. (U.S. Navy Reserve photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathan Word) Sailors across the service had to make a small but ...

Some sailors are concerned that rank tabs will be in short supply as the Oct. 1 deadline approaches for wearing the insignia on their uniforms. The black rank insignia, normally associated with the ...

The United States Navy is the largest in the world. Like other branches of the military, it is highly organized by a vast hierarchical structure. Even for military personnel in other branches of the ...

A Navy administrative message released on Tuesday puts into motion orders issued by the Pentagon in March.

Sailors across the service had to make a small but noticeable uniform change on Oct. 1: They had to swap out the loops of cloth with their rank insignia from the matching digital green camouflage to ...

Nov. 4 (UPI) --The U.S. Navy's new rank insignia for uniforms will make identification of rank easier and follows requests from personnel, the Navy Personnel Command said. Wearing a slip-on insignia, ...

Before you get to basic training, most people don’t have a very thorough understanding of military ranks, let alone the ability to put them in order. Everybody recognizes the ones that commonly show ...