While we see two Commodores in the film, Taggart does not wear a uniform Tolwyn's adjutant Bellegarde has the same four bars as Captain Sansky.Īdmiral (O-10): Two Admirals appear in the film: Tolwyn and Wilson, the commander of Pegasus. (She would later be retconned to be one of several squadron commanders aboard the ship.)Ĭommander (O-5): Commander Gerald, XO of the Tiger Claw, wears the same three bar insignia as Lieutenant Commander Devereaux.Ĭaptain (O-6): Captain Sansky of the Tiger Claw wears four bars.Ĭommodore (O-7): Commodore is an unusual rank which does not exist in the current United States Navy schema (it was replaced by Rear Admiral (Lower Half) and is now used as an honorary title for Captain who commanders multiple other Captains.) In previous Wing Commander games, Commodore is treated as a standard rank. Lieutenant Commander (O-4): Angel, intended to be the Tiger's Claw's Wing Commander in the film, wears three bars. Many of the Tiger's Claw pilots, including Hunter and Rosie, wear this insignia… as do several members of the crew, including Lieutenant Obutu (pictured.) Lieutenant (O-3): Two stripes denote a Lieutenant. Note that Tolwyn erroneously refers to them as First Lieutenants at one point in the film Blair correctly identifies himself as a Lieutenant (Junior Grade) when he reports to Commander Gerald. Lieutenant (Junior Grade) (O-2/O-3): Blair and Maniac, newly arrived on the Tiger Claw, wear a single stripe. What follows are the officer ranks visible in the film: Previous Wing Commander games have used Air Force style ranks for most pilots and Navy style ranks for shipboard officers (like Admiral Tolwyn.) The movie drops this conceit and instead seems to use a variation of the US Navy's rank structure (with some changes the retired Commodore rank is still used.) You can find the previous Wing Commander rank chart from Victory Streak here. Just like the full motion video games, Chris Roberts' team developed an entire system of rank insignias that was never explained… just shown in action! AD was kind enough to grab some screenshots and as a result we have created this guide to identifying officers and enlisted men in the film. I was disappointed in myself recently when I realized I had never bothered to learn the rank insignias used in the Wing Commander movie.
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