Space Force is conducting a survey for their enlisted rank design

Which ranks look the best?

  • Option 1

    Votes: 131 44.6%
  • Option 2

    Votes: 56 19.0%
  • Option 3

    Votes: 23 7.8%
  • Option 4

    Votes: 23 7.8%
  • ayy lmao

    Votes: 61 20.7%

  • Total voters
    294

Forerunner

The Fallen
Oct 30, 2017
8,856
San Diego



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.
 

Godfather

Game on motherfuckers
Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
2,255
2 is just the USAF with a different icon in the middle, and 4 is just the Marines/Army

 

Almighty

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,573
I think two looks the best, but man Starfleet is going all in on that militarization.
 

EscapingJail

Member
Oct 26, 2017
125
Im cool with this existing. I'm just not cool with the amount of resources going into before we get our other shit in check.
 

Jimnymebob

Member
Oct 26, 2017
12,189
2 is the most CoD like so is the most suitable by default.
I assume they prestige after hitting max rank and start from the bottom again.
 
Oct 31, 2017
4,333
Unknown
These are all way too Star Trek. And the little insignia is altered in a way that makes it look more like aircraft rather than spacecraft. Runs counter to the intent that this new branch is suppose to be about space rather than air.

While they're at it they should rename the Army to Land Force and the Navy to Water Force Alpha and whatever else.

Of the four offered. I'd go with 1 for Wanda. ayy
 

ginger ninja

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
2,627
Bruh did they just copy paste Army/Navy/AF designs and included a fourth one just for shit and giggles.
 
Nov 29, 2018
405
I propose we take #s 3 and 4 and make them the up and down buttons on the Space Force Elevator. The different ranks determine the speed.
 
Oct 28, 2017
14,130
1 is the only option that does not look like it is directly from the other 5 branches.

I also dont hate the idea of a Space Force. We will see.
 

whiteninja

One Winged Slayer
The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
1,485
The first one looks like something they would sew onto cheap jumpsuit costumes on a low budget sci fi tv show.
 
Oct 31, 2017
4,333
Unknown
The first is really growing on me.

After staring at it for a bit I find the hexagon with the orbited Earth suggests the atomic age symbol. ⚛

The placement of Earth and the Starfleet insignia help pinpoint the vertex for a cube that becomes a double cube with rank.

It's the only one where the little ship leaves the Earth. Like it's watching over.

And Wanda.
 

daveo42

Member
Oct 25, 2017
16,329
Ohio
Go with 1 because it looks like hex tiles in a board game or 4x game. But really, Space Force shouldn't exist and should fall under the current branches of the military. Navy hands the boats, Air Force the fighter pilots, Marines the grunt work.
 

Gaius Cassius

Member
Oct 28, 2017
762
Just adopt the UNSC insignias and ranks from Halo

I’d be ecstatic if there was something akin to the rank insignias on the colonial marines in aliens
 

Reven

Member
Oct 25, 2017
802
Hopefully they go with 2 to keep it simple. I like the look of 1 too though. 3 and 4 are gross. Don't want to see marine/army style insignia in the DAF.
 

LukeOP

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
4,749
Government waste isn’t an issue to Republicans when it goes into the military, their only acceptable form of welfare.