The service’s top officer ... members progress up the ranks, they move from earth into orbit, at least symbolically. Three junior ranks feature horizontal stripes representing “terra firma ...

The black rank insignia ... wrote Petty Officer 3rd Class Luke Oberle, of Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla., in response. In an email to Stars and Stripes on Monday, Oberle said he tried ...

Five stripes.” No U.S. Army enlisted rank has this insignia. Rather, a 1st sergeant insignia consists of three stripes above, three ”rockers” below, with a diamond in the middle-six stripes.