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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

For reasons that the Navy can't or won't explain, Seaman Apprentice Ryan Sawyer Mays, an E-2, wore the three white stripes of the seaman rank, or E-3, at an Article 32 hearing last month to help ...

Pregame analysis and predictions of the Navy Midshipmen vs. North Texas Mean Green NCAAF game to be played on November 1, ...