Rank Insignia and Uniforms Thread

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Corps Colours for the Central Galactic Space Forces. In addition to unique badges and pins, the main branches of the Space service use colouration to distinguish themselves. As the Spacy duty uniforms are very pragmatic in cut and design, it uses various way to readily and obviously signal its wearer's function on a spacecraft. An astronaut's, officer's, or admiral's function is displayed on the shoulder straps, on stripes down the sleeves and trousers, and in the centre zip of the duty shirt. Even dress uniforms use the Corps Colour as piping.
Command/Tactical is composed of line officers and CIC crew officers, including weapon system officers and helmsmen.
Operations comprises most enlisted Space personnel, being composed largely of spacecraft deck crew and equipment operators.
Engineering is composed of a variety of technicians, including machinists, electricians, plumbers, nuclear engineers, damage control, repairmen. It also includes some construction personnel.
Medical Corps are all medical personnel, including psychiatrists, onboard emergency medical technicians, and Navy Hospital corpsmen.
Naval Security and the JAG Corps are legal officers and enlisted, including Military Police, Naval Investigation, Space Naval lawyers, and Judges.
Naval Intelligence are specialists in information-gathering and processing, operating in conjunction with Army Intelligence, including cryptologists and field agents.
Administrative personnel are a highly varied grouping of service personnel, including yeomen, military bands, chaplains, counsellors, postmen, and others.
Testing and Evaluation are a specialist subset of administrative personnel, testing and operating new equipment, weapons, and components and evaluating data.
Scientific Research personnel are the Space naval subset of the joint Armed Forces science and research department, including astronomical and astrographical research.
Logistics personnel are involved in the movement and supply of materiel, and the maintenance of the Spacy's human resources. While most often thought of as supply personnel, this also includes kitchen crew, laundry crew, barbers, tailors, and builders.
Naval Special Warfare operators, also referred to as the Naval Infantry, are elite special forces capable of action in any terrain, any environment, and are trained specially for zero-gee combat.

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Alternate Canadian navy rank. Instead of having a boring UK-style loop, just use a maple leaf on top of the bars.

That's such a logical idea I thought they were already doing that. I had to double-check official regs, sure enough they're not. The generals used to use maple leafs instead of stars, I think that's what I was remembering.
 
To go along with the uniforms I've already posted, the Republic of Texas Army rank insignia:


The enlisted insignia were inspired by late 19th century OTL US ranks with a few extra slots added in for a smoother career progression. The corporal category is expanded, which gives more prestige to sergeant and above. While the staff sergeant insignia is basically the same as that of the US, in Texas it is more of a senior NCO position. A Texas staff sergeant actually does battalion staff duty, rather that act as a glorified squad leader as in the US system. As for the design, I really like how the rocker stripes fold behind the chevrons, it gives them the same old-timey feel that was the basis of the idea for the uniforms.

Officer ranks are similar to the OTL first Republic of Texas. I added an extra bar to company grades for ease of recognition since the original 2Lt insignia was blank. Apparently the rest of the uniform was supposed to indicate officer status. In modern times there is less distinction between officer and enlisted uniforms, so an easier identification was needed. The field grades kept their arrows and the generals were given their US star equivalent.

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That's such a logical idea I thought they were already doing that. I had to double-check official regs, sure enough they're not. The generals used to use maple leafs instead of stars, I think that's what I was remembering.
One thing I noticed was that a lot of the Commonwealth countries use the same rank insignia for their navies, such as NZ, Australia, and the UK. Not just for officers but enlisted as well.
 
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There are a slew of former colonies across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia that use the UK system of insignia as well.
Yup. India and South Africa both use naval ensigns based off the Royal Navy's, even though neither are a Commonwealth realm/colony (though they were in the past).
 
Yup. India and South Africa both use naval ensigns based off the Royal Navy's, even though neither are a Commonwealth realm/colony (though they were in the past).

pretty much all former british colonies use the british system for all 3 armed forces services. Even other countries, such as greece and luxembourg use a system derived from it due to the british influence.
 
Alternate Canadian navy rank. Instead of having a boring UK-style loop, just use a maple leaf on top of the bars.

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however the loss of the executive curl may be seen as an issue in a CF that is returning to a tri-service set of organisations rather than being just CF
 
To go along with the uniforms I've already posted, the Republic of Texas Army rank insignia:
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The enlisted insignia were inspired by late 19th century OTL US ranks with a few extra slots added in for a smoother career progression. The corporal category is expanded, which gives more prestige to sergeant and above. While the staff sergeant insignia is basically the same as that of the US, in Texas it is more of a senior NCO position. A Texas staff sergeant actually does battalion staff duty, rather that act as a glorified squad leader as in the US system. As for the design, I really like how the rocker stripes fold behind the chevrons, it gives them the same old-timey feel that was the basis of the idea for the uniforms.

Officer ranks are similar to the OTL first Republic of Texas. I added an extra bar to company grades for ease of recognition since the original 2Lt insignia was blank. Apparently the rest of the uniform was supposed to indicate officer status. In modern times there is less distinction between officer and enlisted uniforms, so an easier identification was needed. The field grades kept their arrows and the generals were given their US star equivalent.

i.e. the Texan SSgt is a staff Sergeant as understood by Commonwealth influenced Armies - also in part becasue you have two grades of corporal as seen in Commonwealth influenced structures - one of which is definitely an NCO rank and the lower one if not seen as a 'full' NCO can issue orders within remit (fire team leader / vehicle commander etc) rather than being a higher pay grade / specialist Private ...
 
The lurid green jackets and special cap badge indicate that this uniform belongs to an officer of the Farm Inspectorate, a bureau of the Ministry of the Interior's Department of Agriculture. Such paramilitary officers enforce Central Galactic Government regulations on private, public, and communal farms and they are authorised to appropriate property from tenant-farmers and landowners alike if these regulations are not met.
Their cap badge consists of a golden sun-cross wreathed in sheaves of wheat.
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looks a bit like second half of C20th (west) German police uniform before the Germans moved to police in blue
 
One critique, LCpl is a lower rank than a corporal; however, your insignia has two chevrons with a rocker stripe. This insignia indicates that it is one rank HIGHER than a corporal's two chevrons, not lower. Your PFC and SSgt insignia follow this pattern, so I would think that having this insignia above a two-stripe corporal and renaming it as "corporal first class" or "lance sergeant" would make more sense.

Or have a none chevron grade indicator if you want to distinguish between 2 grades of private soldier ( like the RAFs LACs and SACs - as plain AC is 'not trained strength' grade)
 
A Texas staff sergeant actually does battalion staff duty, rather that act as a glorified squad leader as in the US system.

The part of me that likes systematic rank systems would like Sergeant First Class to be 3 chevrons and a rocker, after the precedent established by Pvt, PFC, Cpl, CFC, Sgt. Of course, that is not the right choice for your timeline which would deliberately be following longstanding military tradition over synthetic aesthetics.

The corporal category is expanded, which gives more prestige to sergeant and above.

Does that mean that when Texas broke off from the U.S., a lot of U.S. sergeants changed their rank to First Corporal, and a lot of U.S. staff sergeants changed their rank to Sergeant? That's not going to be popular with the soldiers. But I can see dividing up the E-4 rank into E-4 and E-4.5 could be popular, since, if I'm not mistaken, there are a huge number of soldiers at that level.


By the way, I like using the U.S. general stars, since that has a lot of meaning in the popular imagination. And I like your decision to use one bar for Second Lieutenant, and two for First Lieutenant. That aligns with Confederate usage. I think it's more likely, unfortunately, that they'd copy the US system of one gold bar, then one silver bar, than two silver bars. I really like the arrows.
 
Alternate Canadian navy rank. Instead of having a boring UK-style loop, just use a maple leaf on top of the bars.

That's a good idea, and it shows more "true patriot love". On a similar topic, I had put some thought into a different Canadian rank system, so that the French and English names are translations of each other. Right now a "Commander" is also called "Capitaine de frégate", and those are much too different.

Enlisted ranks:
Mariner 3rd class, Marin de 3e classe
Mariner 2nd class, Marin de 2e classe
Mariner 1st class, Marine de 1re classe
Chief mariner, Marin-chef
Master 2nd class, Maître de 2e classe
Master 1st class, Maître de 1re classe
Master Chief 2nd class, Maître-chef de 2e classe
Master Chief 1st class, Maître-chef de 1re classe

Warrant Officers:
Formation master chief, Maître-chef de formation
Master chief of the Navy, Maître-chef de marine
Master chief of the Canadian Forces, Maître-chef de Forces Canadiennes

Officers and Cadet
Naval Cadet, Cadet de marine
Sub-lieutenant 2nd class, Sous-lieutenant de 2e classe
Sub-lieutenant, Sous-lieutenant
Lieutenant, Lieutenant
Corvette captain, Capitaine de corvette
Frigate captain, Capitaine de frégate
Ship captain, Capitaine de vaisseau
Commodore, Commodore
Rear admiral, Contre-amiral
Vice admiral, Vice-amiral
Admiral, Amiral


I offer these with the caveats that I am a civilian, I am not Canadian, and je ne parle pas français. I don't see why the French isn't sous-lieutenant, and the English low ranks aren't 1st class, 2nd class, and 3rd class. Other ranks I propose do push similarity a little further than is necessary, and "sailor" and "petty officer" may be more acceptable translations of "matelot" and "maître".
 
That's a good idea, and it shows more "true patriot love". On a similar topic, I had put some thought into a different Canadian rank system, so that the French and English names are translations of each other. Right now a "Commander" is also called "Capitaine de frégate", and those are much too different.

Enlisted ranks:
Mariner 3rd class, Marin de 3e classe
Mariner 2nd class, Marin de 2e classe
Mariner 1st class, Marine de 1re classe
Chief mariner, Marin-chef
Master 2nd class, Maître de 2e classe
Master 1st class, Maître de 1re classe
Master Chief 2nd class, Maître-chef de 2e classe
Master Chief 1st class, Maître-chef de 1re classe

Warrant Officers:
Formation master chief, Maître-chef de formation
Master chief of the Navy, Maître-chef de marine
Master chief of the Canadian Forces, Maître-chef de Forces Canadiennes

Officers and Cadet
Naval Cadet, Cadet de marine
Sub-lieutenant 2nd class, Sous-lieutenant de 2e classe
Sub-lieutenant, Sous-lieutenant
Lieutenant, Lieutenant
Corvette captain, Capitaine de corvette
Frigate captain, Capitaine de frégate
Ship captain, Capitaine de vaisseau
Commodore, Commodore
Rear admiral, Contre-amiral
Vice admiral, Vice-amiral
Admiral, Amiral


I offer these with the caveats that I am a civilian, I am not Canadian, and je ne parle pas français. I don't see why the French isn't sous-lieutenant, and the English low ranks aren't 1st class, 2nd class, and 3rd class. Other ranks I propose do push similarity a little further than is necessary, and "sailor" and "petty officer" may be more acceptable translations of "matelot" and "maître".

pretty good actually. the only corrections would be: "Maître-Chef de la Marine", "Maître-Chef des Forces Armées Canadiennes", "Cadet de la Marine / Cadet-Marin",

If you want a 2-way mixture of rank names (british and french) translated into the other language, you could use:

Petty Officer 2nd class, Bas-Officier de 2e classe
Petty Officer 1st class, Bas-Officier de 1re classe
Chief Petty Officer 2nd class, Bas-Officier-Chef de 2e classe
Chief Petty Officer 1st class, Bas-Officier-Chef de 1re classe
 
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