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 ...

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 ...

The US military's rank structure is a complex language of stripes, stars, and titles. In this definitive guide, we decode the entire enlisted hierarchy from Private (E1) to Sergeant Major of the Army ...

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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 ...

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Steve Melnikoff wore the patch during the D-Day invasion of Europe 78 years ago as he crouched in a tank landing ship off Omaha Beach, German artillery shells screaming over his head. He wore it the ...

The Naval Academy has chosen to honor the Jolly Rogers for its specialized uniform for the Dec. 14 Army-Navy Game. The Jolly Rogers were established in 1943 as a squadron of all Naval Aviation. The ...