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 ...

The U.S. Navy’s rank and rate structure isn’t easy to understand when you grow up in a different branch of the U.S. military. For example, a captain in the Navy is not the same as a captain in the ...

The Museum of Veterans in Vilonia has hundreds of military rank pins and patches that have been worn on the uniform of soldiers serving in the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.

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 ...