Why do SW armies have so few enlisted ranks?

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

Great Question

Wha? There's a lot of ranks.

Yeah, but among the officers. As far as enlisted go the ranks are 3 times smaller than IRL usually.

GL lacked imagination dats y

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.

the ranks above are officer ranks

Ah, nvm.

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

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.

Hmm, noice, didn't remember the clone army having something else besides private, cpl and sgt, thanks 👆

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.

The Q was ranks, not organization Ant.

Neat pic, thanks for sharing.