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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer community now has a new insignia to go with its new name. The Navy changed the community’s name last year from the “Special Operations” ...

A chief petty officer whom the Navy accused of wearing service decorations and insignia he didn’t earn has pleaded guilty to lesser charges after proving he did in fact receive some of the honors, ...

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 ...