The key is why are they sorting? If you mean the family members who
are entering the soldiers names, why would they need to sort? If so,
what fields? to what end?
If you mean people trying to find a listing on your site, rank could
be an optional field but it should not be required. Ranks change
q
I served in the military...
Go by this order to narrow selection:
1) Military (Army, Navy, Air Force, etc...)
2) Service Branch
3) Commissioned or Enlisted (Officer, Warrant Officer,
Non-Commissioned Officer, Enlisted)
4) Rank (Sgt, Airman, Master Chief, etc...)
There is also "pay grade" that is
Katie said: You really don't want to group them by service within a
single drop down. That always causes issues of supremacy to surface.
Good point =]. I have family from all five branches (army, myself),
all of whom might leave the site entirely if they perceived it as
biased...I can hear my Da
BTW, be sure you pay attention to how each service abbreviates ranks
is you're using abbreviations. Even the same rank will be
abbreviated differently (e.g., Army Master Sergeant is MSG, whereas
Air Force Master Sergeant is MSgt).
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Actually, you will *never* have more than one "General of the Army"
at a time, and.. in all likelihood, even one person with that rank
would be unlikely these days.
If your intent is to offer a filter, then you're gonna want to first
let them specify the service... which would then drive what the
On Jun 23, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Katie wrote:
I'd actually give the data-entry people a pull-down for service
branch, and then have back end programming such that the proper list
of ranks available in that service drop down (which significantly
cuts the number of available titles. There are v
You seem to be concatenating a couple problems here, which it means
it's hard to determine the best solution. (1) how do you enter the
first name and does your field contain both rank and first name and
(2) how to enable sorting by last name.
One thing I'm absolutely sure of: with all 5 bra
Jamie's point is important, each branch has a different rank
structure (I'm presuming we're talking US military).
You can find this sort of info online - Wikipedia for example... for
the US Marines:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps#Rank_structure
You could either have users
Yes, I thought about the different branches and ranks amongst those
branches. It may be too complex to implement at this stage. I may have to
just keep it as a text field and people can enter the rank themselves.
On 6/23/09 1:39 PM, "Tonia M. Bartz" wrote:
> There are also different sets of ran
You really don't want to group them by service within a single drop
down. That always causes issues of supremacy to surface. Even if it's
alphabetical, the Marines will get upset that the Army is first and
the Navy will tell you that the Marines are a subset of the Navy and
shouldn't appear
A google search for "official us military rank names" yielded this
result, which might do the trick for you:
http://www.usafesvsmarketing.org/Tools/US Military Ranks.htm
As mentioned, might help to know the service first, then your
dropdown list will be much shorter. Or you could try option grou
There are also different sets of ranks within branches of the
military, officer and enlisted.
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Jamie Bresner wrote:
> One thing to keep in mind...is this just soldiers (i.e
One thing to keep in mind...is this just soldiers (i.e. Army) or all
military branches? If the latter, then there are different ranks within the
different military branches to consider...
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Anthony Zeoli wrote:
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