Talk:United States Army officer rank insignia

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Contents 1 Silver & gold 2 Merge 3 Change of text position 4 Abbreviations 5 Missing Rank 6 General of the Armies

[edit] Silver & gold

The "gold" rank is not actually gold for the grades of 2LT and MAJ. The color is actually bronze and the reason it is considered inferior to silver is the bronze rank required polishing to keep from tarnishing while the silver ranks did not. This is what is currently being taught in the Officer Candidate School at Ft. Benning.

That conflicts with the explanation from the Institue of Heraldry [1]]. If the original insignia was embroidered on the epaulettes, then silver and gold are colors, not metals. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 12:05, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

Why was this merged into the U.S. Army article when U.S._Army_enlisted_rank_insignia was not? I think this page was valuable as a quick reference and a nice printable list of officer ranks. Perhaps it can be linked somehow to the chart in the main army article or otherwise reverted? Thanks. - 64.247.236.234 23:18, 10 January 2006 (UTC) Wow I was just about to ask about that Bushido Brown 22:27, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Change of text position

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  (diff) (hist) . . m U.S. Army officer rank insignia; 16:32 . . Nricardo (Talk)   
     (moved intro., so as not to be obscured by table.)

Not sure I understand the motive. The text should wrap around the two tables. It did not? I ask because there are many other pages with the same style. If there's a problem, I need to identify it. The text wasn't intended to be a header, but I was hoping someone would fill in more text later. - Wguynes 00:36, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Abbreviations

I've always had an issue with adding abbreviations, even before putting content on wikipedia. I've never found an official source for any abbreviations for any branch. Adding them is dooming you to endless edit revisions as personal opinions creep in. I used to host my own military rank pages and got endless "corrections" all contradicting each other. - Wguynes 07:52, May 15, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Wguynes. Below are official sources (i.e., the Department of Defense). These use the military's standard, which may deviate from civilian style guides. Also note that different branches have different abbreviations and that capitalization counts.

* http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/insignias/officers.html

* http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/insignias/enlisted.html

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does the rank of General of the Armies, belong here as well? Xtra 02:53, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Missing Rank

The highest rank ever achieved in the army is General of the armies. 1 above general of the army. --68.44.106.218 01:47, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] General of the Armies

I think that this rank should be removed, it has not been held in years and is not currently active in the US Armed Forces, Plus it Messes up the Other Ranks on the Template Feeblezak 10:43, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

It should be mentioned, but not included in the table. There is no current authorized insignia for the rank, but it is still recognized as the highest U.S. Army rank ever held. Caerwine Caer’s whines 18:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC)