Dear GCS, In my humble opinion not the Nato and not the US system of rankinsigniacategories are very useful. There are to much difference in categories, paygrades and examinitionsystems. An example: in Netherland a Corporal is by law an NCO, with NCO education and training of about 3 months. Te bec...

After following the thread "Universal Translations" I was wondering why / how the NCO ranks for each country where choosen and if it is correct to say that e.g. OR-5 is the lowest NCO that leads a squad. It would be great when someone from each country included in the STANAG could have a l...

I wonder why we don't simply use the STANAG 2116 as it is pretty straight forward and already included those countries that one usually compares other countries to. This way it shouldn't be too difficult to fit countries into the grid not included in the STANAG. Facts about the STANAG. The STANAG al...