Guardians, the Space Force wants you to help determine your enlisted rank insignia
Enlisted guardians can have a say in what their insignia will look like.
So now that the great name debate is over, Space Force wants its enlisted guardians to help determine how their rank insignia will look.
To that end, the military’s newest service on Tuesday launched a survey complete with four choices of insignia for ranks from E-2 to E-9.
“We are conducting a scientifically designed survey to capture Guardian feedback on proposed enlisted insignia designs,” Lynn Kirby, Space Force spokesperson, told Air Force Times in an email. “We released the survey March 2. Members have the next few weeks to respond to their unique invitation to participate, and the results of the survey will inform the next steps toward finalizing insignia designs.”
Only guardians who already transferred and those pending transfers received unique invitations to participate, Kirby said.
After much public debate over what to call its troops, Space Force spelled out what its rank structure will be as of Feb. 1 in a memo signed Jan. 29.
But those who advocated for the Space Force to adopt a rank structure patterned after the Navy — most notably Captain Kirk himself, Star Trek actor William Shatner, on this very website — or something even more fanciful and space-faring will be sorely disappointed. With a few exceptions, the Space Force’s rank structure closely resembles the Air Force from which it derived.
The officer rank structure for Space Force guardians, as they are now known, will be the same as that used by the Air Force, Army and Marine Corps, ranging from second lieutenants to four-star generals.