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United
Earth Oceans Organization
UEO Military
2018 - Present
(Technically
the "naval force" of the UEO Military,
a
unified service.)
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Rank
Code |
Rank
description notes |
Rank Title – English |
Insignia
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NATO codes National rank grade information |
All ranksare listed in English |
Shoulder Patches & Collar Insignia |
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Enlisted Crew |
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NAEM-1 |
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Recruit |
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NAEM-2 |
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Apprentice |
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NAEM-3 |
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Enlisted 3rd Class |
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NAEM-4 |
Red backing indicates Support Personnel - Engineering,
Technical, Sonar, Communications & Supply |
Enlisted 2nd Class
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NAEM-6 |
Grey backing indicates land based "Army" style units |
Enlisted 1st Class |
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NAEM-6 |
White backing indicates Medical Personnel |
Enlisted 1st Class |
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NAEM-7 |
Blue backing indicates Command branch Personnel |
Chief |
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NAEM-8 |
Yellow backing indicates Staff Personnel generally land
based. |
Senior Chief |
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NAEM-9 |
Blue backing indicates Command Branch Personnel, the
Military Police Designation indicates Master at Arms.
Chief Crocker wears this insignia in the first season. |
Senior Chief - Master at Arms |
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Commissioned Officers |
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NACO-1 |
Red backing indicates Support Personnel - Engineering,
Technical, Sonar, Communications & Supply |
Ensign (ENS) |
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NACO-2 |
Yellow backing indicates Staff Personnel generally land
based. |
Lieutenant (Junior Grade) (LTJG) |
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NACO-3 |
Red backing indicates Support Personnel - Engineering,
Technical, Sonar, Communications & Supply |
Lieutenant (LT) |
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NACO-4
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White backing indicates Medical Personnel |
Lieutenant Commander (LTCMDR) |
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NACO-5
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Blue backing indicates Command branch Personnel.
Commander Ford wears this embroidered shoulder patch. |
Commander (CMDR) |
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NACO-6
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Blue backing indicates Command branch Personnel.
Both Captains Bridger & Hudson wear the shoulder
insignia but not always the collar patches |
Captain (CAPT) |
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Flag Officers |
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NAFO-1 |
NATO Grade OF-7
Yellow backing indicates Staff Personnel
No Official designation is given between the two grades of
Admiral.
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Admiral |
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NAFO- |
NATO Grade OF-8
Admiral William Noyce wears this insignia as
the Commander in Chief . No official designation is given him
other than "Admiral"
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Admiral |
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Artwork & Text Copyright © 2001 - 2003 Robb Mavins.
All rights reserved.
United Earth Oceans Organization) Information
The United Earth Oceans Organization (UEO
organisation) is
the fictional United Nations and NATO style organization created by Rockne S.
O'Bannon for the TV show SeaQuest DSV / 2032. While the actual Military
structure was never totally defined, it is made clear that at least SeaQuest and
her crew derived from the NORPAC Command, a US style military service.
The UEO Military adopted a fairly
classic Naval rank pattern, but both the flag ranks (Admirals) and the the
enlisted ranks were never totally clarified. The definition of staff and
land based (Army) personnel was also a little unclear. That is the
nature of speculative fiction.
Additional Notes:
Even though this is a speculative rank system, at present I have included
only rank badges shown or mentioned on the actual show.
My personal pet peeve (like or hate it) is this; OK I am a former Navy Officer
and and I like it when Commander is below Captain, but if the creators choose to
make it different so be it. When we all get our shirts in knot about this
stuff , we suffer so if the author of the system decides that Commander outranks
Captain that is acceptable.
Speculative Fiction Note- Ranks
Change ( pretty much daily)
Things change, ranks are not set in stone, even the US Army & Navy have
changed drastically in rank in the last 200 years (actually even in the last 50
years).
A few simple historical examples - Prefect, Warrant Officer
Prefect:
Today for many in the
Western World , Prefect sounds like some "antiquated European rank".... and it is.
But a Prefect under the Roman Legionary system was first a second in command to
a Legate then eventually outranked him.
Warrant Officer:
In the Royal Navy (in truth, creator
of the Warrant) the "Warrant Officer" has changed hugely in the last 300
years. Starting as the what the US would call "staff or corps
officers", the professional officers i.e. (Sailing Master, Surgeon, Purser, etc)
moved up to commissioned status in 1843. The "standing Warrant Officers"
(Boatswain, Gunner Carpenter etc) started a downward status trend to equal a
status that of today's Chief Petty Officer in 1846.
When the RN created the actual Chief Petty Officer rank in 1853, the "standing
Warrants" got pushed up again to having "Officer Status" once more until the
late 19th century when the RN created the Commissioned Warrant Officer (who were
by title commissioned) the RN Warrant was still an "Officer". As an
example until after WWII (1949 - when the RN Warrant was abolished) a RN or RCN
Warrant Officer was saluted, had wardroom privileges and still outranked a
Midshipman.
The new Royal Navy rank of Fleet Chief Petty Officer (re-introduced in 1973) was
treated like a British Army Warrant Officer I, called Mister but not saluted.
Also they were not admitted to the wardroom. When they changed the rank title
back to Warrant Officer (in 1986), it kept this status, no salute, no wardroom
privileges, but can be called sir and addressed as Mister (as opposed to Chief)
Today as of April 2004, the RN introduced the new rank of Warrant Officer II,
now very clearly "a Senior Chief Petty Officer"
