Personally I'd like to see the Army drop the Specialist rank entirely and just have it be Corporal. If you're advanced enough to be an E-4 to begin with, you should be considered an NCO...the Marines and Navy do!! The Army used to have a whole Specialist system, up to Spec-7. They got rid of it when...

Here's how I would do the Air Force, modeled more on the RAF: ENLISTED: E1 Recruit E2 Airman 2nd Class E3 Airman E4 Airman 1st Class E5 Senior Airman E6 Sergeant E7 Flight Sgt/Staff Sgt E8 Squadron Sgt/Tech. Sgt E9 Wing Sgt/Master Sgt E10 Senior Master Sgt/Group SMS E11 Chief Master Sgt/Division CMS...

This hypothetical rank stuff is really cool! I have my own ideas about how to 'fix' the US rank system, and part of it would be resurrecting the old USMC tradition that had straight and curved rockers for NCOs (straight 'ties' were for staff or non-combat guys, and the regular curved ones were for c...

Wow, those look nice. What book are they from? I'd like to snag me a copy.

Awesome site, just wondering if there were any plans to add the USMC ranks from WW2, they had both curved and straight rockers for the sergeants, which was unique as far as I know. The US Army WW1 ranks are quite confusing, unfortunately, so I could understand why they wouldn't be added!