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

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 front of the NWU Type III blouse showing the proper wear of name tapes, rank and warfare insignia as well as the shoulder patches. (Alan Lessig/Staff) The Navy’s gone green, but for some sailors a ...