Kommendör

The top galloon is shaped like a "loop" for an officer in the Swedish Navy (the loop is shaped like a "grenade" for an officer in the Swedish Amphibious Corps).[8] The rank insignia is worn on the shoulder mark to jacket and coat (jacka m/87, kappa m/87), as well as to blue wool sweater (blå ylletröja m/87), trench coat (trenchcoat m/84), sea coat (sjörock 93, black raincoat and to white shirt (vit skjorta m/78).[9] Rank insignia on shoulder mark (axelklaffshylsa 02B) is worn on all garments with shoulder straps.[10]

1. The shoulder mark (Axelklaffshylsa m/02B) is designed as galloons sewn directly to another shoulder mark (axelklaffshylsa m/87 blå).[10]

2. Before 2003, captains wore three 8 mm gold galloons and a loop of 16 mm gold galloons m/51.[11]

3. The wowen shoulder mark (AXELKLAFFSHYLSA M/02 INVÄVD KOMMENDÖR FLOTTAN) is worn on the naval combat dress (sjöstridsdräkt m/93), duty uniform (arbetsdräkt m/87 (blå)) and combat uniform (Fältuniform m/90 lätt, m/90 lätt blå, m/90 tropik (green, beige and blue)).[12]

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  1. Embroidered shoulder mark (2003–present)
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  2. Embroidered shoulder mark (–2003)
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  3. Wowen shoulder mark (2003–present)

Rank insignia is worn on both sleeves for inner suit jacket (innerkavaj m/48) and mess jacket (mässjacka m/1878).[9]

1. On the sleeve an 11 mm galloon m/51 with chevron and three 11 mm galloons m/51. Galloon 12.6 mm rank insignia (gradbeteckning m/02) (navy or amphibious corps). 12.6 mm galloon m/02 gradually replaces 11 mm galloon m/51. The distance between galloons should be 6 mm. The distance from the bottom edge of the sleeve to the bottom edge of the top galloon should be 100 mm.[13] This sleeve insignia was worn by a commander (kommendörkapten) until 2003.[11]

2. Before 2003, captains wore three 11 mm gold galloons and a loop of 23 mm gold galloon m/51.[11]

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  1. Sleeve insignia for a captain (2003–present)
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  2. Sleeve insignia for a captain (?–2003)

A captain wears as embellishments (known as scrambled egg) a gold embroidered laurel wreath (skärmbroderi m/49) on the visor of the peaked cap (skärmmössa m/48). It also fitted with a hat badge (mössmärke m/78 off för flottan) and with a strap in form of a golden braid (mössträns m/42).[14][15]

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  Peaked cap worn by Captain Harry Bong.
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  Hat badge

An officer wears a hat badge (mössmärke m/78 off) for the navy and another (mössmärke m/87 off) for amphibious units on the side cap (båtmössa m/48) and on the winter hat (vintermössa m/87).[16]

A captain wears a large aiguillette (stor ägiljett m/1816) to mess dress, service dress uniform in connection with representation (equivalent), and to full dress uniforms. For uniform parts without a shoulder strap (axelklaff), a shoulder girdle is used in the navy (if applicable with a royal name cipher) to attach a large aiguillette to the shoulder next to the shoulder seam. For the inner jacket (innerkavaj m/48) and the mess jacket, the aiguillette is attached to two small buttons under the coat.[17]

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  Large aiguillette (Stor ägiljett m/1816) on mess uniform

A captain wears epaulette's (epålett m/1878) to white tie (frack m/1878) and to coat (rock m/1878). On the epaulette, a captain wears 7 mm and 4 mm (within) fringe in two rows.[18]

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• "Försvarsmaktens gemensamma identitet – direktiv för användandet av Försvarsmaktens namn, profil och bild" (PDF). 1.3 (in Swedish). Swedish Armed Forces. 2013-09-16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 September 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
• "FFS 2018:7: Försvarsmaktens föreskrifter om befordran och konstituering" (in Swedish). FÖRSVARETS FÖRFATTNINGSSAMLING. 30 November 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2020 – via www.lagen.nu.
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