The Navy approved new rank tabs that will better stand out against woodland camouflage after sailors complained about having to stare at each other's chests to discern their shipmates' pay grades.

Different ranks in the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) are distinguished by badges of honour, often featuring star epaulettes.

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 ...

When Gene Roddenberry created "Star Trek," he didn't pull it out of a vacuum. Impressed with a real life World War II Navy vessel, the USS Enterprise, Roddenberry modeled the capital ship of Starfleet ...

Three stripes up, crossed rifles in the center, this rank insignia is worn proudly by a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., March 8. Sergeant is ...

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, ...

One of the first things Soldiers get while at basic training is a “Blue Book” or, as it’s officially known, the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command Pamphlet 600-4. This book, just big enough to ...

The establishment of the U.S. Air Force on Sept. 18, 1947, marked the day the Army Air Forces' brown shoes and like equipment would soon see black dye applied. By 1952, the “old brown shoe days” were ...