Airmen salute during a ceremony honoring a retiring chief master sergeant. Air Force Maj. Kevin Deibler argues that the military's rank structure is holding back the force, especially as it prepares ...

Here’s a familiar scenario for most enlisted Marines: You’re walking along when you see an older Marine barreling toward you with an immaculate eight-point and a shit-ton of black stripes and rockers ...

The US military's rank structure is a complex language of stripes, stars, and titles. In this definitive guide, we decode the entire enlisted hierarchy from Private (E1) to Sergeant Major of the Army ...

Marines with Marine Special Operations Company Charlie, 1st Marine Raider Battalion, process intelligence and set up a visual telecommunication feed after a simulated direct-action night raid in 2015.

Three stripes up, crossed rifles in the center, this rank insignia is worn proudly by a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., March 8. Sergeant is ...

Recruit Justin Kelley sets security during the Crucible on MCRD Parris Island, Dec. 5, 2024. (Staff Sgt Brendan Custer/Marine Corps) When Justin Kelley left the Air Force in 2015, he was an E-5 – a ...

John Dollard, 83, who spent more than three years serving as a Marine Corps sergeant in the 1950s, had hoped that “Sgt.” would adorn his gravestone at Calverton National Cemetery when his time comes.