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No, years of services. For every 4 full years of services it's 1 stripe.
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For the real world impaired: remember in ST:II how they had the stripe on their left sleeve with pins on it?
*realization dawns*
Well, my work here is done..
*but you didnt do anything*
Didn't I...?
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Here's what my BMR (Basic Military Rights) book says...
quote:Service Stripes Service stripes (called hash marks) indicate length of service. One stripe is worn on the left sleeve of jumpers for each full 4 years of active or Reserve service in any of the armed forces, or any combination thereof, such as 2 years in the Army and 2 years in the Navy. Scarlet hash marks and rating badges are worn on blue uniforms; blue hash marks on white uniforms.
Gold rating badges and service stripes are worn when good conduct in the naval service totals 12 years. This 12 years may be active or drilling reserve time in the Navy, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps, or Marine Corps Reserve. For more information about authority to wear gold rating badges and service stripes, refer to the U.S. Navy Uniform Regulations, NAVPERS 15665
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CaptainMike - there where pips and slightly longer ones in Star Trek - gold and silver. What did each different one represent. In other words:
Gold long thingy = Gold pip thingy = Silver long thingy = Silver pip thingy =
Oh, and why are they in different orders for all the different character? Is there a specific sequence per division/department?
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long thingies are officially called 'squeaks'
1 pip = 1 year starleet service 1 squeak = 5 year Starfleet service.
I'm not sure, gold and silver might have been officer/non-com distinction, its not specified on the page i got it from
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I remember the BMR...
The things on the forearms are hashmarks indicating service. But on Hobbe's little pic there (which is neat by the way), those are the first three ranks; Seaman Recruit, Seaman Apprentice, and Seaman. However, you would see those on the shoulder and they would have their little picture thing indicating their job.
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I was going to join the Navy. I was going nuke. 8 years. I'd be coming out around now. I found out that there was a point system for recruiting. I guess I was worth a lot. It made me kind of sick. 8 years: 4 years of school; 4 years in a Sub. I wanted to be the guy who made sure the reactor on the mission to Mars was working. 6'5", 275. They were never going to send me to Mars. I often wonder how my life would have been different.
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Thanks for the idea. I added two stripes to represent E-2 what will be my rate if I finish this DEP stuff before going to boot camp.
If this board allowed avatars I'd use that, updating it to reflect my rate. And hopefully in 4 years my rank. Although as much as I hope to go to AOCS I'm not holding my breath.
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quote:Originally posted by CaptainMike: long thingies are officially called 'squeaks'
1 pip = 1 year starleet service 1 squeak = 5 year Starfleet service.
I'm not sure, gold and silver might have been officer/non-com distinction, its not specified on the page i got it from
They bother with 1 year pips?
Oh and the encyclopedia say that gold are years of service and silver are commendations (page 211 of the updated and expanded edition). Given this info, what would the pips and squeaks represent for the commendations? Pip - OK performance, squeak - outstanding performance?
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Since we pretty much know though how long Starfleet people have been in Starfleet, didn't someone actually look at the bars they had on in the movie, use the 1-year/5-year thing, and scientifically deduce that it was "bollocks"?
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I considered doing this, but when i realized that Scotty's rank fluctuated between three movies, that the smaller pins were probably less accurate. Plus it makes my eyes hurt. And my brother saw me kneeling with my face an inch from the TV with my finger on the slow-mo button, and issued a string of invectives about the nature of fandom that made me question my own actions.
But the nature of the pins is clearly documented in Fletcher's notes on the designs.. but we all know that any idea of chronology that was supposed to exist in 1982, 1984, and 1986 in the trek universe was repeatedly sodomized by Okuda with the publication of The Official and Intentionally Inaccurate Chronology. Hasn't seen Khan in 15 years my ass...
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OK, so those service stripes represent 4 years in the army - is that the same for the other armed forces like the navy and air force? Oh and what about the police? I ask about the police because Channel 5 has started to show T. J. Hooker and he's been in the police force for almost 20 years and only has 3 stripes - buy by my count he should have 5. Is the time period different in the police force?
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