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 ...

Before you get to basic training, most people don’t have a very thorough understanding of military ranks, let alone the ability to put them in order. Everybody recognizes the ones that commonly show ...

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 ...