Uniform Insignia Forum

Merry Christmas, everyone

SFMRAS wrote:
Miklós Lovász wrote:Well, check out this guy

https://twitter.com/SpaceCorpsUS

Lord Cybran wrote:Wow... someone not well informed could take that for real...
Account no longer active. What was on it?

Something almost like Ld Cybran's design.

Well, check out this guy

https://twitter.com/SpaceCorpsUS

Medic Alert! Medic Alert! Medic Alert!
Pictures missing! And some of us miserably neglected to d/l them :(
Could you do smthng about it?

Cheers!

Excellent!

Great work, Mark!
Just one point: how d'you think the Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, etc would react to wearing a cross?
Or the Christians to wearing an inverted cross?
The four and five-dots ranks perhaps would do better with a circular or diamond-shaped arrangement... wouldn't you say?

Meeeeerrry Christmas to all!

On the other hand, if the Roman Empire didn't cease existing, today most (if not all) of Europe would be guarded by the legions, after they fought and won myriad battles against pretty much everybody, Vikings included. Therefore, I wouldn't be surprised if a reverse "Red Sea rig" would app...

Well, it's still haute couture for the Royal Regiment of Scotland, isn't it?

Medic_in_Uniform wrote:The all-conquering armies of mighty Rome wearing short leather skirts with studs and feathers on their heads. Could be an interesting look...

LOLOLOLOLOL

that's pretty much my onnly reaction .....

on the other hand ... Highlanders&Co ... hmmm ....

The Roman Empire (and European society) changed because of the migrant peoples. So, let's assume they were defeated and assimilated, or they didn't migrate, at all. In this case, I would assume a Roman Empire changed by the times (invention of the steam engine - Heron of Alexandria did it -, gunpowd...

Medic_in_Uniform wrote:Oh, believe me, when I'm not on-call for a big ICU, I will totally have a go at this...!!

not that I'm impacient or something ... not at all, at all ... just mentioning passingly that the year is coming to it's end ... that's all ...

.... still waiting ... just reminding you ... no hurry .... none whatsoever ... at all, at all ....

Oh, believe me, when I'm not on-call for a big ICU, I will totally have a go at this...!! smilies-29 Just tell them that there are lots of terminally ill patients, fighting with their last breath the symptoms of that horrible - and most lethal - disease called medic-designs-whitdrawal (nullus desig...

Medic_in_Uniform wrote:This is a great one....!

I could have SO much fun with this!!

So? Why don't you? Pretty pleeease with a loooot of uische'beagha in it? :D

Come on, it IS fun ... why don't you do it?

Helios88 wrote:

P.S. After only 4 years I gained my first star on the first shoulder board! I'm very proud. :D

Complimenti, signore sottotenente:)

http://forum.uniforminsignia.org/viewtopic.php?f=125&t=5363

True, this was about an all-human space force, but it does have some distinctly US-based insignia, courtesy of oour own medic-in-Uniform.

Medic_in_Uniform wrote:Hello...

Hip-hip-hurray! You're here! Could you please get back to the saving-the-world bussiness and do something awesome about the debated issue?

Pretty please with a lot of sugar in it?

I have no idea what the German od Swedish system was at the time .... if there was one, at all. My point is, that in the books there seems to be a ... call it "rift" betwee the uptimer dominated branches (AF and Navy) that go mostly with the US insignia and possibly the Army, with a lot of...

I would agree with chevrons ... how about the O ranks?
The uptimers would go with the 5-pointed sters, eagle (as worn by COL Woods, USEAF) and bars ... but what about the downtimers? Especially the downtimers who accessed the encyclopedias with all the pics of German and Swedish insignia?

There are some indications in the books, but nothing detailed. In the USE Navy, the first CNO (Admiral Simpson) made his own rank insignia (stars) and handed out bars to LT Canttrell. The first head of the USE Air Force (Col. Woods) wore eagles and his officers/NCS's wore US insigni (or so is hinted...

In the long running and rather popular series, the time-traveling Grantville community start their own military force, which than combines with Gustavus Adolphus' mainly Swedish army and navy and, with the addition of newly raised units becomes the United States of Europe's Armed Services. There are...

How about you like at this:

http://forum.uniforminsignia.org/viewtopic.php?f=125&t=5363

if you read through the post they might give you an idea ...

What you need to do is think out of the box. In other words, don't factor in the existing systems, but rather come up with an entirely new one. Out of top of my head: different cathegories with different numbers of point, like: junior NCO's 3-pointed stars, senior NCO's 4-pointed stars, WO's 5-point...

I don't think NK seeks independence, but rather union with Armenia. They already have a military force (and had one since 1992): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-K ... fense_Army

Because they would hold to the British tradition, where the chief of the police force is known as Chief Constable or Commissioner of Police. Now, given that they would have a force much smaller than the Met, a more elaborate structure would not be needed (the Met has almost as amny officer-equivalen...

Just for discussions sake: Considering that the force is small and mostly concerned with law enforcement, I think that the highest appointment/rank would be Chief Constable, with, say, one Deputy Chief Constable, two (?) inspectors and several constables (the island's population is about 2000, so no...

We had a similar debate about a hypothetical space force, which you can find here: [url]http://forum.uniforminsignia.org/viewtopic.php?t=5363[/url] The point is that any such military organisation would have to be neutral in appearence (unless, of course, the WG is a veiled form of one nations domin...

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I would like to ask everyone who thinks about hypothetical rank structure this question. How many NCO grades should there be? please elaborate if you would like to. Well, I'd say it depends on how the people/institutions who define the system look upon it. As you surely know, the Soviet/Russian sys...

That said, they don't wear uniforms either, so the sword was an extrapolation of the concept of uniforms for the Wardens! Not so! When Harry leaves the beheading of the Korean warlock he leaves his mantle, robe and stole on the back seat of the Blue Beetle. So, we know that he has the greay mantle ...

I'm really sorry to squash your ideas, but it won't work. The novels clearly state that every Warden has a sword fitted to his/her personality: for instance Captain Carpaccio has a rapier, Warden Morgan has a broadsword, Warden Ramirez has a scimitar. So unfortunately, no uniform issue sword. One mo...

Oh, one more thing: I seem to remember that Kravos used a topside-down pentagram for his dealings, so perhaps it should be avoided.

I really like the embellishments you added to the High Captain and the Captain. However I do agree with Miklos that the Warden Commanders should have a different uniform from the Wardens. Perhaps the High Captain could keep the gold broad band oak-leaves, but give the Captain silver instead of blac...

Great work as always! I just started to read the novels - glad to have discovered them. As to the uniforms: how about replacing the berets with hats? You know, the kind of XVII. century broad brimmed hats, one brim turned up and fastened to the crown with a pentagram? And one more thing: shouldn't t...

Given that we're talking about a small organisation, I think a small rank structure would be appropriate - after all, out of some 3000 personnel you really don't want half of them be officers :) So, I believe this structure would meet your needs: Army Police Coast Guard Cadet Student Cadet Private C...

Oh, I really love when in Romanian "dress" is translated as"skirt (as in women's dress"), i.e. "rochie" instead of "tinuta". So instead of service dress it's service skirt ... and it's abour the egyptian army, not some Scottish regiment LOL

Anywhere in the world it is illegal to impersonate any official personnel (uniformed or otherwise). The question is: what one has to do in order to commit such an offence? Well, there are two ways: one, to verbally claim to be such and to substantiate your claim with false ID (i.e. to say "I'm ...

You're right, unfortunatelly only Pavel can make the changes and he's hard to come by:( Btw, the Constitution only says that the President "bestows the ranks of field marshall, general and admiral", while the Law no. 80/1995 on the Statute of Officers and NCO's at Article 2 last para state...

Masterstroke! Well done!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!

OKay, let's move on. we have a lot better things to do than squabble

I suggest the following to EVERYBODY: 1. If you want to have a discussion not related to the subject of the forum, please do it in private. 2. Always use polite language. Try to figure out, whether a remark or your perceived tone could or could not be considered offensive by others. Do try to write ...

Yes, this should work ... though the last img doesn't show:(

Excellent! As always, let me add smilies-15 I see what you mean about too many squares ... I can think of only one solution: keep only 1 through 4 squares, so we would have a system akin to that of the British Army, with (equivalents of) PFC, CPL, SGT and SM, while the WO-equivalents would be superi...

I meant those working FOR the head (advisers, experts, clerks, aids, secretaries, inspectors, anybody else working directly in his office).

Perfect! As to the "line" issue: my point is that we're talking about a uniformed civilian organisation, so basically what we need is to set apart the various branches. Therefore, the branch whose members do the actual spacefaring (pilots and navigators) can be called"line" or &q...

Whoa! This is starting to get complicated! smilies-01 I was trying to keep the overall look of these uniforms fairly sleek, simple and un-cluttered. I'll happily draw some out for you but the belts and the coloured hat-bands are starting to sound a lot like US Army dress blues, if you ask me...! Or...

Could you do some more modifications to the uniforms? Like having the full dress' jacket trimmed in colour all around (lower edge of the skirt and cuffs, too) and moving the insignia to the collar. Could you also draw a black (or dark grey) belt for the service dress and a silver/golden/coloured com...

This is perfect! Exquisite! Unbelievable! You've read my mind! Can I nominate for you a Nobel prize or something?

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