I'm a new forum member and I want to apply for a service number for which I need a rank. Can I just pick what I want (I'd go with Corporal) for this or is it something that I am assigned with service?

You can pick what you want. I went with private but i think i might be due a promotion!

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Happy Happy, Joy Joy

I'm assuming this is because you want a set of dog tags making up with your rank and service number on them?

Like Stimpy said, just pick what you want. SGM Baldwin will generate the number, then who ever is making your dog tags (I'm assuming Gary Pusey, as he does most of them) can put your details on them.

Thanks Simon (plus thanks for recommending this forum to me at MCM). Yes, this is so I'll have a number ready for when I can order some dog tags.
Corporal Dutton it is then!

Aaaah right, wasn't aware we had previously met. I do remember speaking to several people that day and recomending the Aliens Legacy forum and telling them about UKCM and Reel Icons.

Been following your build on the RI board, glad you joined up!

I was the fleet trooper from the Rebel Legion with the 9 foot pike.
I checked out your officer WIP in the UKG RI forum as you suggested after our discussion about art to go with my fan fiction. There were some great images thanks.

NOW I remember you!

Glad you signed up. I just got my Colonial Marine SGT cleared, which I hope to be debuting at MCM London this month.

I look forward to having you run laps around the con halls at future troops

Ah yes the infamous UKG hazing. They keep borrowing my pike for that.

UKCM rank is a mystical and elusive beast...

Promotions are rare, and usually include...(CENSORED)

Sorry, i've said too much already....

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MSgt Matt Bradley 'Crashdown' (Formerly Mattb)
A12/TQ2.0.82145E1
CO UKCM 13th Regt. 1st Batt. 'Freebooters'
"There are very few problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives."

I didn’t really understand the rank concept either.

Its just for fun..., choose what u want..., or if u where in the military, use that rank like me...

And by the way, an E4 Corporal is the stupidest rank in the military..., go for an E3 PFC or an E5 SGT or higher..

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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

I can get the tags done as once you get your info. Just drop me a message or connect me via Facebook.

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Pt. G. Pusey.

Armour by Terry English.

In Aliens it was a corporal that lived longest.
Although in Spaced Invaders it was claimed that "The corporal always die first."

Don’t forget if you go for anything other than private you need to get patches on your BDU’s

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Pt. G. Pusey.

Armour by Terry English.

Are there some specific patches, or just US marine corporal stripes?

Did Hicks have a corporals patch?

Hicks had his sleeves rolled up too high to tell. You only really see his BDU shirt at all after he's been splashed by an alien's acid blood in the lift.

-White bordered US Flag on left shoulder
-USCM “Screaming Eagle” on right shoulder
-Black/gold (US Army) rank Bars below US Flag patch (PFC and up only)
-”Delta” patch on on left breast pocket for Corporal and up
-”Ship Patch” on left breast pocket for PRV and PFCs
-”Name” above front Right pocket, “USCM” above front left pocket

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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

And yes, Hicks had the rang insignias sewed on his BDU top, there is an picture somewhere from his BDU top where u see it, I think from an auction or an collector, I'm not sure..., but there where devently there....!
And don't use the USMC rank patches, go for the US Army C Class rank insignias...

Found the picture...:
http://www.alienscollection.com/remar.jpg

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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.