Editing Cap badge (section)

==Navies==
Cap badges used by navies (and merchant mariners) around the world tend to follow the pattern in use by the [[Royal Navy]]: an [[anchor]], or occasionally a [[cockade]], surrounded by golden leaf-shaped embroidery, and often topped by a crown or another symbol. They may be worn on peaked caps or berets. For [[petty officer]]s the leaves may be absent or replaced by a ring of golden cable. 

===United Kingdom===

====Royal Navy====
[[File:Lord_Mayor%27s_Show,_London_2006_(295201010).jpg|thumb|right|Badge of a petty officer on a hat of female RN personnel, left, with a commissioned officer's badge on a peaked cap, right.]]
Cap badges in the [[Royal Navy]] differ between ranks but have some common features: junior rates ([[Able Seaman]] to [[Leading Seaman]]) do not wear cap badges, wearing the peakless [[sailor's cap]] in number one dress. When wearing a beret, junior ratings will wear a fouled anchor within a gold ring as a beret badge. 

[[Petty Officer]]s wear a silver fouled anchor within a gold circle, with [[St Edward's Crown]] above the ring as their cap badge. That of [[Chief Petty Officer]]s is the same, but with a small laurel wreath around the gold ring. That of [[warrant officers]] (both Class I and Class II) has a larger wreath around the anchor, but omits the ring. 

The laurel wreath around that of commissioned officers is larger still.

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File:A_Sailor_Smiling_Onboard_HMS_Bulwark_MOD_45155883.jpg|Cap badge of a junior rating, worn on a beret.
File:Lord_Mayor%27s_Show,_London_2006_(295199477).jpg|Cap badge of a Royal Navy warrant officer on a peaked cap.
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====Royal Marines====

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In the [[Royal Marines]], cap badges are worn on peaked caps and berets. Those of [[Royal Navy officer rank insignia#Royal Marines|commissioned officers]] below the rank of colonel are split in two, the crown and lion atop, but separated from, the globe and laurels. They are brass and silver. Those of [[Royal Navy other rank insignia#Royal_Marines|other ranks]] are of the same design but not split in two. They are plain brass.

Blackened or subdued versions of both variants, those of officers and other ranks, are worn on berets, with [[Combat_uniform#United_Kingdom|combat uniforms]]. 

The lion and crown denote a royal regiment, conferred by [[George III|King George III]] in 1802. The globe was chosen by [[George IV|King George IV]] to reflect their successes around the world. The [[Laurel wreath|laurels]] honour their gallantry at the [[Capture of Belle Île]] in 1761.

In the [[Royal Marines Band Service]], the Portsmouth band and CTCRM band have different cap badges from the rest of the Corps.<ref>[https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/-/media/royal-navy-responsive/documents/reference-library/br-3-vol-1/chapter-40.pdf Royal Marines Badges of Rank and Insignia]. BR 3 Chapter 40. [[Royal Navy]].</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.royalmarinesbands.co.uk/reference/FS_rank.htm |title=Badges of rank and other badges of the Royal Marines Band Service |access-date=2020-08-07 |archive-date=2013-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729140404/http://www.royalmarinesbands.co.uk/reference/FS_rank.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Special Boat Service|SBS]] also has its own cap badge.<ref name="Globe2003">{{cite magazine|magazine=The Globe & Laurel – The journal of the Royal Marines|author1=OC SBS|title=The New SBS Cap Badge|publisher=Simpson Drewett & Co Ltd|location=Richmond, Surrey|date=November–December 2003|issn=0017-1204}}</ref><ref name=pickup>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/5309727/Col-Richard-Pickup.html |title=Col Richard Pickup&nbsp;– Obituary |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=11 May 2009 |access-date=9 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100525112932/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/special-forces-obituaries/5309727/Col-Richard-Pickup.html |archive-date=25 May 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>

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File:BrigadirsCap_Badge.jpg|Cap badge of RM colonels and brigadiers.
File:Evening_Parade_140718-M-GR671-024.jpg|Brass and silver cap badges of Royal Marines junior officers.
File:Marine_Cadet.jpg|Plain brass cap badge of RM other ranks. This version is also worn by [[Royal Marines Cadets]] of the rank of [[Colour sergeant#United Kingdom|Colour Sergeant]] or below.
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===United States===
====Navy and Coast Guard====
[[File:US Navy Cap Devices.png|thumb|U.S. Navy current and former cap devices.]]
The main exceptions to the Royal Navy pattern are the [[United States Navy]] and the [[United States Coast Guard]], which once followed this pattern, but changed after the [[American Civil War]] to their current designs. The Navy has crossed anchors behind the eagle and shield for commissioned officers, while the Coast Guard uses a single large anchor held in the eagle's claws on its commissioned officers' caps; officers in both branches wear a miniature version of the commissioned officer insignia on the left side of the garrison cap, with rank insignia worn on the wearer's right. [[Chief petty officer (United States)|Chief petty officers]] and above in both the Navy and the Coast Guard have a larger version of their collar insignia as their cap badge for the [[Peaked cap|combination cover]] and a miniature version worn on the [[Side cap#United States|garrison cap]]; [[Petty officer first class#United States)|petty officer first class]] and below in both services wear a full-sized rank insignia on the garrison cap. Junior enlisted coastguards wear a combination cap badge featuring a gold disc in front of two silver crossed anchors, while junior enlisted sailors of both genders wear a [[sailor cap]] without any insignia. Midshipmen at the [[United States Naval Academy|US Naval Academy]] and the [[United States Merchant Marine Academy|US Merchant Marine Academy]] and in the [[Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps]] (NROTC), and wear a single, upright fouled anchor on combination and garrison caps, while cadets at the [[United States Coast Guard Academy|US Coast Guard Academy]] wear a single fouled anchor surmounted by a silver five-pointed star, with one point facing down.

====Marine Corps====
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United States marines wear the [[Eagle, Globe, and Anchor]] as their cap device: gilt and silver for officers and gold for enlisted on [[Uniforms of the United States Marine Corps#Dress uniform|blue dress]] uniforms, and subdued for all ranks on [[Uniforms of the United States Marine Corps#Service uniform|service and utility]] uniforms. Marine-option [[midshipmen]] at the US Naval Academy wear the same cap device as other midshipmen, while NROTC midshipmen wear the enlisted-dress Eagle, Globe, and Anchor on all their uniforms instead of an anchor.