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As I understand it, the designations don't actually stand for anything.  The authors of the books that expanded the SW universe just thought they sounded cool.
 
The only truly Canon designation is "TK", since that was used in ANH.  And that isn't an acronym.
 
So you can pretty much think of them any way you want. But there's no official breakdown, as they're not actually acronyms.

I'm liking imperial designation. Sounds legit in our universe.

I thought it meant Imperial Detachment or Imperial Designation or something like that. 

I thought it meant Imperial Detachment or Imperial Designation or something like that. 

Goofing around with the Rebel Legion at a pediatric charity event for Team Abigail at Faster Fitness in Huntington Beach, California on St. Patricks Day, 2018. Vader would not stop saying "I have you now..."

Subjugation of planets and peoples who were once free and super-weapons meant to strike fear into those who would dare to resist - not to mention the fact that their leader committed the mass genocide of an entire people who had an opposing philosophy to his...seems pretty clean-cut evil to me.

So on my CosplaySky flight suit, I carefully snipped the corners of the window up until the inner seam. I folded the now free portions of the window under the inner seam portion and then used double-sided iron-on tape strips to hold them in place. Once that was done, I took the extra step of sewing in a fuzzy patch of Velcro into the middle of the window and glued the hooked side of the Velcro to the bottom of my Comm Pad - this helps to keep the pad from slipping out of the now larger window (something I see all the time on folks during troops). It was a pretty quick and painless procedure to open the window in this manner and the best part is, I can dry clean and wash the flight suit and the sticky tape holding the flaps back sticks through and through.
 
I'm sure there are other thoughts on this and techniques but this worked beautifully for me. Good luck. 
 

Photo by Mark Edwards at Wonderland Studios in Anaheim, California. Amazing hologram Photoshop job done by Scott Rogers.

Agreed completely. The bad guys have the best uniforms.


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Yeah don't get me wrong. I'm not going to stop dressing up in Imperial uniforms. They look awesome. A good villain is better than a good hero in fiction (and Star Wars has both, fortunately). But I'm not under any illusions as to what they're meant to represent.

Subjugation of planets and peoples who were once free and super-weapons meant to strike fear into those who would dare to resist - not to mention the fact that their leader committed the mass genocide of an entire people who had an opposing philosophy to his...seems pretty clean-cut evil to me.

I think, unequivocally, yes. The Empire was evil.
 
Was every person in the Empire evil? No, probably not. But much like the "clean wehrmacht" myth, they're more complicit than they are stupid.
 
As far as things going pretty well, I don't think that's really true, either. Entire species were enslaved, freedom of speech was nonexistence, everything we consider to be human rights in real life (and I guess we'd call something else since not everyone's a human in Star Wars) were suppressed. They definitely didn't have "basic rights."

Sorry to double post, but it's right in the opening crawl, in fact:
 
 

Or NBC? Man, I'd love to watch Rittenhouse HQ get destroyed on that screen! (Timeless reference!)

I'm doing the same thing - I submitted my Staff Officer today, but when I took the pictures I also took ones without the rank bar and cylinders.
Once my Staff is approved, I'll send in the second set of photos for the Warrant Officer.

But does it get HBO?

This past Saturday, a few of us in the Southern California Garrison (OC Squad) were lucky enough to snag some studio time with the insanely talented photographer, Mark Edwards. Follow the bouncing link to see some of his awesome work...
 
https://photos.app.goo.gl/yZhMUJ4d02Yroygb2
 

This past Saturday, a few of us in the Southern California Garrison (OC Squad) were lucky enough to snag some studio time with the insanely talented photographer, Mark Edwards. Follow the bouncing link to see some of his awesome work...
 
https://photos.app.goo.gl/yZhMUJ4d02Yroygb2
 

Very cool pics

Very nice pics!!  Keep up the great work!!

Very nice! Looks like you all had a lot of fun.

These are reayll great pics, well done! 

The photo's look great. 

Thanks man

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This past Saturday, a few of us in the Southern California Garrison (OC Squad) were lucky enough to snag some studio time with the insanely talented photographer, Mark Edwards. Follow the bouncing link to see some of his awesome work...
 
https://photos.app.goo.gl/yZhMUJ4d02Yroygb2