Why do SW armies have so few enlisted ranks?
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JKBart
Normally armies have like 10 enlisted ranks, 2 for privates, 3 for junior NCO, 5 for sergeants etc. and it's pretty much natural since officers command platoons and above of 36 people, so all these fuggots among these 36 have to have differing ranks and progression
meanwhile
typical SW army:
private, corporal, sergeant, staff sergeant, the end
Why lol
Zenwolf
Wha? There's a lot of ranks.
JKBart
Yeah, but among the officers. As far as enlisted go the ranks are 3 times smaller than IRL usually.
toplel
GL lacked imagination dats y
UCanShootMyNova
They do have ranks like Captain, Commander and Lieutenant.
The rank structure is more filled out in novels like Lost Stars. At least for the Imperial Navy.
JKBart
the ranks above are officer ranks
Zenwolf
Originally posted by JKBart
Yeah, but among the officers. As far as enlisted go the ranks are 3 times smaller than IRL usually.
List of NCO ranks within the GE Imperial Army.
Private
Private 1st class
Lance Corporal
Corporal
Sgt
Staff Sgt
Master Sgt
First Sgt
Senior Sgt
Sgt Major
Command Sgt Major
So now what was that about SW armies not having NCO ranks?
Hell you know what, I'll list the Junior/Senior NCO ranks and the Officer ranks.
Junior Warrant Officer
Senior Warrant Officer
Second LT
LT
Captain
Major
LT Colonel
Colonel
Brigadier General
Major General
LT General
General
Field Marshall
High General
Grand General
I can do the Navy too.
Shipman Apprentice
Shipman 2nd class
Shipman 1st class
Petty Officer 3rd class
Petty Officer 2nd class
Now for the Junior/Senior Officers and Officers
Petty Officer 1st class
Junior Chief Petty Officer
Chief Petty Officer
Senior Chief Petty Officer
Master Chief Petty Officer
Command Master Chief Petty Officer
Cadet
Ensign
Junior LT
Sub LT
LT
LT Commander
Commander
Captain
Commodore
Rear Admiral
Vice Admiral
Admiral
Fleet Admiral
High Admiral
Grand Admiral
Zenwolf
The Galactic Republic also used the same ranks.
The only differences in rank for whatever reason, was the GAR and the Republic Judicial Forces. More than likely due to the fact that the Republic didn't have a standing army for some time, as they more or less relied on Planetary Security Forces until the Clone Wars. Or just deciding to keep things simple.
Regardless, there are a ton of NCO and Officer ranks with the SW armies. At least stated for the GE and RA.
JKBart
Hmm, noice, didn't remember the clone army having something else besides private, cpl and sgt, thanks
Zenwolf
Originally posted by JKBart
Hmm, noice, didn't remember the clone army having something else besides private, cpl and sgt, thanks
Welcome, yeah as noted they probably wanted to keep things simple and since Clones having a short life, it probably didn't make much sense to have all those ranks, so they might have just condensed em. That and Jedi filling the gaps.
But yeah, the GAR seems to be the only one with this sort of thing.
DarthAnt66
http://i.imgur.com/PZZiTwm.png
Zenwolf
The Q was ranks, not organization Ant.
Trocity
Neat pic, thanks for sharing.
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