I was trying to be rather non-denominational :) here, but yes, essentially NCO's. Commonwealth Armies use chevrons, or "stripes" to the layman. Americans (exce

I was trying to be rather non-denominational :) here, but yes, essentially NCO's. Commonwealth Armies use chevrons, or "stripes" to the layman. Americans (except the USAF/Navy, for some reason) flip those upside down to be different. Other armies use different things, but basically, more == higher. Of course we also have crowns up here in Canada just to confuse new recruits. :-)