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trbaldwin wrote:SF
In a sence the Canadian Army NCO ranks retained a variation on UK style
The only difference is they removed the Rank of Lance Corporal and Staff Sergeant and have 3 Warrant Officer Ranks where as we in Australia have only 2 same with the UK and NZ
At "unification" it was the RCN and RCAF that lost their Service Specific Insignia more the RCN then RCAF
Torg003 wrote:I don't see the point of changing the colour of the ranks to pearl grey. Keep the gold, it looks fine on the AF blue uniforms. All they need to do is replace the one chevron rank with the single prop in gold. Much cheaper and would look fine.
I wonder why there hasn't been a move to change the RCN ranks for the NCMs, those IMO need to be changed. Army style ranks on navy uniforms looks terrible.
Torg003 wrote:I don't see the point of changing the colour of the ranks to pearl grey. Keep the gold, it looks fine on the AF blue uniforms. All they need to do is replace the one chevron rank with the single prop in gold. Much cheaper and would look fine.
Torg003 wrote:I wonder why there hasn't been a move to change the RCN ranks for the NCMs, those IMO need to be changed. Army style ranks on navy uniforms looks terrible.
... to avoid the appearance of promoting/demoting people for no reason (such as why they used the crossed sword and baton for the brigadier general instead of the crown and 3 pips).
venqax wrote:... to avoid the appearance of promoting/demoting people for no reason (such as why they used the crossed sword and baton for the brigadier general instead of the crown and 3 pips).
One reason to do that would be to represent the fact that in the Canadian Army (like the US Army) the rank is brigadier general, and it is a general officer rank; whereas the British Army brigadier is a field-grade rank. Perhaps that is what you are saying. The British Army in the past did have a rank of brigadier general and its insignia was the crossed sword and baton.
marcpasquin wrote:Incidently, "army style ranks" is relative. While it's true that commonwealth navies' petty officers overwhelmingly wear anchors as rank insignias, many other navies, including the US, France and Italy use chevrons for them. It probably only looks odd because you're thinking of it in term of the ROYAL Canadian Navy.
nelsy58 wrote:- Army is resuming its old ranks which in Canada is not an issue of sorts for except in Quebec (who sort of follow the CAF model), as all police, EMS, commissionaries, etc. kept the old pre-1968 style. Only a controversy for those who hate change, are anglophobes, or are cheap...
jrichardn2 wrote:Hm. Interesting. The "5-star" ranks aren't listed in the Schedule to the National Defence Act in 1968, which was the basis for my assertion. I do wonder how "official" that chart is. :-)
Torg003 wrote:Always thought they should've used Marshal style insignia for the Governor General (have nothing against the current CinC insignia). I guess they wanted to go away from something that may have looked too "British".
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