Uniform Insignia Forum

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Hi Everyone! Presented here is my illustration of another type of rank/specialty insignia for a United States Navy Warrant Officer (WO-1), who is assigned as a Line Officer. Chuck [img][img]http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w9/ChuckAnderson_/USNWO-1.gif[/img][/img] I read somewhere that the the US...

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The Officer Grade Warrant Ranks were abolished in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines in 1949 and WOs were reintroduced in the RN and RM in 1970. It should be noted that the Royal Marines may have lost the rank of Warrant Officer between 1949 and 1970, but they never lost the grades of Quartermaster S...

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The Officer Grade Warrant Ranks were abolished in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines in 1949 and WOs were reintroduced in the RN and RM in 1970. The following links provide more detail: [url]http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Pers-Warrant%20Rank.htm[/url] [url]http://www.godfreydykes.info/THE%20ROYAL%20...

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1) Warrant Officer Class I [Rank Insignia: Royal Coat of Arms] (a) What positions within the Royal Navy could a person of this rank hold? Command Warrant Officer, Executive Warrant Officer (b) How would a person of this rank in the Royal Navy be addressed? Mr/Mrs/Miss by Officers, 'Sir' or 'Ma'am' b...

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From the US Forces Japan website:

http://www.usfj.mil/Japanese%20military%20rank%20chart.pdf

Interesting that the Warrant Officer is classed as an officer by Japanese standards but is equivalent to an E9 in the US Forces.

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I have never come accross reference of any marine holding a commissioned warant rank [but it seems I could be wrong]. I would be interested to know if in deed any marine WO's aquired these commissioned ranks. Another thing that seems to be at odds, although the marines followed army ranking, and th...

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In the absence of directly translatable terminology, I think you have to look at the function of the personnel to translate their rank. Stabni Praporcik Ludek Kolesa holds the position of Senior Enlisted Adviser at NATO's Allied Trasformation Command in Norfolk USA and was formerly the Czech Army's ...

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The Czech Army website translates 'Stabni Praporcik' as 'Master Warrant Officer 4'

'Hlavni Praporcik Armady Ceske Republiky' translates as 'Command Sergeant Major of the Czech Army',

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Interesting though that although the Czechs and Slovaks still use the same rank titles, they now have different functions: The Czech 'Praporcik' has been developed into the 'Sergeant Major' equivalent - like the British Warrant Officer The Slovak ' Praporcik' is now a technical officer rank - like t...

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Can someone confirm whether the 'Praporcik' ranks in the Czech Army correspond with the 'Praporcik' ranks in the Slovak Army. My understanding is that in the Czech Army, the Praporcik ranks are senior enlisted OR8 and OR9s - the senior rank being that of 'stabni praporcik' However I'm not sure about...

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"Stanowiska Sztabowe" = "Staff positions" "Pomocnik Dowodcy ds. Podoficerow" = "Assistant to the Commander for matters regarding NCO's" "Szczebel Kompanii" = "Company level" "d-ca druzyny" (d-ca = dowódca) = "squad commander...

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Hi London, you write: think the new structure for NCOs is as follows (slide 9 in the Powerpoint Presentation): Plutonowy/ Sierzant (NATO: OR5/OR6) - second in command of a platoon Starszy Sierzant (OR7) - Senior NCO in a Company Mlodzny Chorazy (OR8) - Senior WO in a Battalion Chorazy (OR8) - Senio...

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LONDON wrote: Unfortunately my Polish is not very good. Can someone translate the meanings of:

Stanowiska Sztabowe
Pomocnik Dowodcy ds. Podoficerow
Szczebel Kompanii
d-ca druzyny
szef pododdzialu
pulk

Grateful if any Polish speakers could help translating the above into English

Many thanks

London

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The English translations of the Estonian Senior NCO Ranks on Uniform Insignia are incorrect. The correct translations for SNCO ranks for the Army, Navy and Air Force are described in Paragraph 29(3) of the Defence Forces Service Act (see link below): http://www.legaltext.ee/en/andmebaas/paraframe.a...

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The Romanian Defence Website lists all three services ranks together with insignia (see link below). This includes the Maistru Militar clasa a V-a ranks for all three services which are translated as Warrant Officer Class Five for the Army and Air Force and Petty Officer Class Three for the Navy. Th...

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The English translation given on Uniformi Insignia and on the Romanian Armed forces website for these technical ranks is Warrant Officer. However unlike most armies where WOs outrank NCOs, the WO ranks appear to have NCO equivalents as described in the NATO report below: www.nato.int/ims/2005/win/na...

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I found this Powerpoint Presentation on the new rank structure/ responsibilities in the Polish Army on the Web. You will need to have Microsoft Powerpoint to view this: http://www.kadry.wp.mil.pl/pliki/pliki_fckeditor//File/power_point/modele_przebiegu_sluzby.ppt However, you can download a copy of ...

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My understanding is that the rank of starszy chorąży sztabowy is the senior of four current WO ranks in the Polish Army as listed on the Polish Ministry of Defence Website: http://www.wp.mil.pl/strona.php?idstrona=139&idn=2_13_2 The insignia is the same pattern as starszy chorazy but with four s...

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Happy New Year to everyone

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Here are the latest ranks and insignia in the Italian Army

http://www.esercito.difesa.it/root/equipaggiamenti/gradi_270906.pdf

Some of the Warrant Officer ranks have changed.

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The title 'Junior Warrant Officer' should be 'Assistant Warrant Officer' for the Pakistan Air Force

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This response was posted by 'A. Rahman' on the BD Military Forum ''The Bangladesh Army has changed the rank title of JCO and NCOs back in year 2000. The changed titles are: 1.Lance Naik - Lance Corporal 2.Naik - Corporal 3.Havildar - Sergeant 4.Naib Subedar - Warrant Officer 5.Subedar - Senior Warra...

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Pavel

The new insignia look good, but the 'Junior Warrant Officer' title should be 'Assistant Warrant Officer' for the Pakistan Air Force.

In addition, 'Chief Technician' is now an obsolete rank as it has been replaced by 'Assistant Warrant Officer'

Regards

London

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The rank of Chief Technician has now been replaced by that of Assistant Warrant Officer in the Pakistan Air Force. The Air Force rank insignia therefore need to be updated See the thread about Pakistani Airmen ranks under the General Discussion forum. Sketor7558 has kindly added pictures of the late...

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Interesting

Is this on the web? If so can you give me the site?

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I believe the Assistant Warrant Officer rank has replaced the Chief Technician rank in the Pakistan Air Force.

Grateful if you could update the PAF insignia.

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I think the man on the right is some kind of Warrant Officer, can someone confirm the exact rank? The insignia is not included in the Air Force insignia on this site.

http://www.defence.gov.au/oppakistanassist/images/gallery/20051113a/20051112adf8239682_0120.jpg

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The Japanese WO rank (Jun Rikui) is equivalent to a Commonwealth WO i.e. an enlisted rank (info from a serving Sergeant First Class in the US Army!) Interesting that the wartime Japanese Army Warrant Officer rank (Jun-i) had officer status, as does the current South Korean WO rank (Junwi) which is e...

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The Japanese name for the warrant rank 'Jun Rikui' can be translated as quasi-officer, associate officer or half-officer. I'm waiting for some answers from the US Military in Japan on the status of Japanese Warrant Officers, but the rank insignia and the 'Rikui' suffix (also used for Lieutenants and...

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Dear London, I think that only Japanese pay grade tables and function classifications can solve adequate this question. I do not have them, but maybe somebody else does? Yours sincerely, Peter Meijlaers Peter Good point. Interesting though that the Japanese WO has the suffix 'Rikui' which is also t...

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Dear London, Personnaly I think that it is like a French 'Adjudant' because he is a promoted Chief Master Sergeant in the Japanese system and has not an special entrance level like US Warrant Officers have. US ones are not promoted Sergeant Majors for instance. Yours sincerely, Peter Meijlaers Corr...

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Peter It's interesting though that the Japanese Self Defense Forces also have Sergeant Majors, Master Chief Petty Officers and Chief Master Sergeants which suggests the Warrant Officers might have a different status. Click on 'Recruit' at the top of the page in the attached link to look at the overv...

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Is the rank of Warrant Officer in the current Japanese Armed Forces an officer or enlisted rank?

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In the British Army, Sergeants are addressed as 'Sergeant', Staff and Colour Sergeants as 'Staff' or 'Colour', and Warrant Officers by their appointment title e.g. 'Sergeant Major' 'RSM' or 'Mr'. 2nd Lieutenants and Lieutenants are addressed as 'Mr', Captains and Majors by their rank title, and Lieu...

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Can anyone give me the Nato STANAG Rank codes for ranks in the Czech Republic's Army?

Is the NCO rank structure being changed - what will the new ranks be? :?:

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The Military rank equivalents look very accurate. However there are no Corporals, Sergeant-Majors and Sub-Inspectors in the British Police.

The ranks go:

Constable
Sergeant
Inspector
Chief Inspector
Superintendent
Chief Superintendent

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