Dale Franks has come up with some really great shockwave animations. The first is a breakdown of US military rank insignias by service. I have never served in the real military, yet I have had to deal with members of the Army, Navy, and Marines as part of my job. It helps to know someones rank beyond just "Sir."
The second is a breakdown of military rank from David Weber's Honorverse. The Honorverse series is a set of excellent military space opera books that roughly parallel the golden age of sail in the napoleonic period. They are quite good although Weber need to work on his characterizations a bit more, he tends toward white knights and mustache twirling villians a bit more than he probably should. Word is that there is another book coming out in the series quite soon.
Dale's Honorverse insignia are actually so good that Baen books has used them officially. Honor's beret on the cover of War of Honor has Dale's manticore on it. Congrats to him.
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