{"id":178,"date":"2008-02-26T17:03:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T21:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timcurran.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2008-02-26T17:06:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T21:06:17","slug":"link-of-the-week-us-military-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/26\/link-of-the-week-us-military-ranks\/","title":{"rendered":"Link of the Week: U.S. Military Ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was never in the military (duh), so I find military ranks and insignia somewhat confusing &#8212; and they come up in OutQ News stories pretty often, because of gays in the military.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there&#8217;s a handy website that not only shows all the ranks in the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force, in order, with their insignia, with officer ranks color-coded&#8230; it also provides their pay grade <em>and<\/em> puts it all in a tabular format so you can compare the ranks across services.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all on one convenient page of a website aimed at fans of Tom Clancy novels, movies, etc.: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clancyfaq.com\/Military_Ranks.htm\" title=\"Military Ranks\" target=\"_blank\">The Tom Clancy FAQ Military Ranks page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was never in the military (duh), so I find military ranks and insignia somewhat confusing &#8212; and they come up in OutQ News stories pretty often, because of gays in the military. Fortunately, there&#8217;s a handy website that not only shows all the ranks in the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force, in order, with their insignia, with officer ranks color-coded&#8230; it also provides their pay grade and puts it all in a tabular format so you can compare the ranks across services. It&#8217;s all on one convenient page of a website aimed at fans of Tom Clancy novels, movies, etc.: The Tom Clancy FAQ Military Ranks page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,20,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-links","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Tim Curran","author_link":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/author\/timcurran-admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I was never in the military (duh), so I find military ranks and insignia somewhat confusing &#8212; and they come up in OutQ News stories pretty often, because of gays in the military. Fortunately, there&#8217;s a handy website that not only shows all the ranks in the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force, in&hellip;","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pNBEQ-2S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timcurran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}