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1 Officer Ranks

For a comparison of major participants in the First and Second World War see:

Comparative military ranks of World War I

Comparative military ranks of World War II

Other references:

U.S. Army officer rank insignia

U.S. Air Force officer rank insignia

U.S. Marine Corps officer rank insignia

U.S. Navy officer rank insignia

British Army officer rank insignia

Russian Forces Ranks

Ranks of the Israeli Defence Forces.

Military rank for details on the history of the rank system.

For more extensive lists of ranks in different languages see:

Army officer ranks

Naval officer ranksNavies have military rank systems that often are quite different from those of armies or air forces. Sometimes, services that are considered parts of the navy marine or amphibious corps use the army-style ranks instead, while the ranks listed here are res

Air force officer ranksAir forces of most of the countries use ranking system simular Armies. However the RAF, and the air forces of many Commonwealth countries, or those formerly under a British influence use a different set of ranks loosely based on naval equivalents; Lieuten

1.1 British, US, and German officer ranks

Note that the US military usually uses O-1 to O-11 to symbolize officer, and not the NATO codes of OF-1 to OF-10 in which all subaltern officers are classed as OF-1 (O-1 and O-2 in US). Not listed are US warrant officers. In accordance with Army Regulation (AR) 135-100 , Department of the Army Pamphlet (DA Pam) 600-11 and Army Field Manual (FM) 22-100 (para A-3) [1], a warrant officer is an officer who can and does command, carry out military justice actions and sits both selection and promotion boards. A warrant officer is a single-track specialty officer, initially appointed by the Secretary of the Army, he/she receives a commission upon promotion to Chief Warrant Officer Two (CW2).

Notes to table above

1. RAF-style ranks are also used by the Royal Australian Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force, Nigerian Air Force, Indian Air Force, Pakistan Air Force, Bangladesh Air Force and Sri Lanka Air Force . The Ghana Air Force and Air Force of Zimbabwe (previously Royal Rhodesian Air Force ) also use the same basic system, but replace Pilot Officer and Flying Officer with Air Sub Lieutenant and Air Lieutenant . The Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Malaysian Air Force also previously used the system.
2. 0F-10 ranks in the United States can only be attained during war time. This is also now generally the case in the UK, although provision is made to award them under special circumstances in peacetime (no promotions to these ranks have been made since they were generally suspended in 1997).
3. The Royal Marines rank alongside their army equivalents. However, when borne on the books of any of HM Ships or Naval Establishments Royal Marines are subject to the Naval Discipline Act 1957 and in these circumstances many officer ranks in the Royal Marines enjoy greater status. Second Lieutenants are equivalent to Sub Lieutenants and ranks from Lieutenant to Major may be considered equivalent to one rank higher (0F-2 to 0F-4). Lieutenant Colonels are considered equivalent to RN Captains with less than six years in the rank, and Colonels would be equivalent to Captains with more than six years seniority. Higher ranks follow the equivalence on the table above.
4. Not used in the Royal Marines.
5. Junior to equivalents in other services.

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