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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

When Navy legend and computer programming pioneer Grace Hopper was promoted to O-7 in 1982, she pinned on the one-star insignia and became Commodore Hopper. If she had been promoted just a few years ...