FReeper Canteen ~ Military Ranks ~ Officers ~ Sept. 19, 2005

Daffy Duck

[StarCMC]

 

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Military Rank - Part 2
Officers Ranks

           

Today we're taking a side trip in the Short Speak journey to learn more about the different military ranks.  Hopefully you're not as confused about it as I am! 

Officer ranks in the United States military consist of commissioned officers and warrant officers. The commissioned ranks are the highest in the military. These officers hold presidential commissions and are confirmed at their ranks by the Senate. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps officers are called company grade officers in the pay grades of O-1 to O-3, field grade officers in pay grades O-4 to O-6 and general officers in pay grades O-7 and higher. The equivalent officer groupings in the Navy are called junior grade, mid-grade and flag.

Warrant officers hold warrants from their service secretary and are specialists and experts in certain military technologies or capabilities. The lowest ranking warrant officers serve under a warrant, but they receive commissions from the president upon promotion to chief warrant officer 2. These commissioned warrant officers are direct representatives of the president of the United States. They derive their authority from the same source as commissioned officers but remain specialists, in contrast to commissioned officers, who are generalists. There are no warrant officers in the Air Force.

Naval officers wear distinctively different rank devices depending upon the uniform they're wearing. The three basic uniforms and rank devices used are: khakis, collar insignia pins; whites, stripes on shoulder boards; and blues, stripes sewn on the lower coat sleeves.

 

	Army	Navy & Coast Guard	Marines	Air Force
W1	Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)	USN Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)	Warrant Officer 1 (WO)	No Warrant
W2	Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)	USN Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CWO2)   USCG	Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CWO2)	No Warrant
W3	Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CW3)	USN Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CWO3)   USCG	Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CWO3)	No Warrant
W4	Chief Warrant Officer 4 (CW4)	USN Chief Warrant Officer 4 (CWO4)   USCG	Chief Warrant Officer 4 (CWO4)	No Warrant
W5	Chief Warrant Officer 5 (CW5)	USN Chief Warrant Officer 5 (CWO5)	Chief Warrant Officer 5 (CWO5)	No Warrant

 

	Army	Navy & Coast Guard	Marines	Air Force
O1	Second Lieutenant (2LT)	Ensign (ENS)	Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt.)	Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt.)
O2	First Lieutenant (1LT)	Lieutenant Junior Grade (LTJG)	First Lieutenant (1st Lt.)	First Lieutenant (1st Lt.)
O3	Captain (CPT)	Lieutenant (LT)	Captain (Capt.)	Captain (Capt.)
O4	Major (MAJ)	Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)	Major (Maj.)	Major (Maj.)
O5	Lieutenant Colonel (LTC)	Commander (CDR)	Lieutenant Colonel (Lt. Col.)	Lieutenant Colonel (Lt. Col.)
O6	Colonel (COL)	Captain (CAPT)	Colonel (Col.)	Colonel (Col.)
O7	Brigadier General (BG)	Rear Admiral Lower Half (RADM (LH))	Brigadier General (Brig. Gen.)	Brigadier General (Brig. Gen.)
O8	Major General (MG)	Rear Admiral Upper Half (RADM (UH))	Major General (Maj. Gen.)	Major General (Maj. Gen.)
O9	Lieutenant General (LTG)	Vice Admiral (VADM)	Lieutenant General (Lt. Gen.)	Lieutenant General (Lt. Gen.)
O10	General (GEN) Army Chief of Staff	Admiral (ADM) Chief of Naval Operations   Adm. Vern Clark and Commandant of the Coast Guard   Adm. Thomas H. Collins	General (Gen.) Commandant of the Marine Corps   Gen. Michael W. Hagee	General (Gen.) Air Force Chief of Staff   Gen. John P. Jumper retiring Nov. 1, 2005
	General of the Army (reserved for wartime only)	Fleet Admiral (reserved for wartime only)		General of the Air Force (reserved for wartime only)

A note to my heroes

Regardless of what rank you are;
whether enlisted or officer;
Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine or Coast Guardsman;
Hear this:
I appreciate you and everything you have done for me from the
bottom of my heart.  You make me SO proud to be an American.
God bless you all!

 

If you have a suggestion for a Field Trip - maybe a place where YOU have been stationed and would like to re-visit - PLEASE Freepmail it to starcmc!!  Thanks!

 

  

 

Please remember: the Canteen is a place to honor and entertain our troops.
As such we attempt to keep it MOSTLY apolitical. 
Thanks for playing and have a nice day!  LOL!!!
 

 

 

[laurenmarlowe]

ROFL!

SOMETHING always keeps me running around!

Thanks for the awesome songs BRO!

**HUGS** to you all!

[trussell]

Hi Star! How are you and family?

[StarCMC]

We are fabulous. Hubby's out of town on a motorcycle binge (LOL!) and so I took the kids to a local parade and fair on Saturday and wrastled them thru church this morning and children's choir tonight. Whew - I'm beat! LOL

[mylife]

This heat is ridiculous isnt it? pushin 100 in late Sep?

Yeesh

[AZamericonnie]

It's 96 here right now....actually it feels quite comfortable....I have a couple of window open for fresh air. I cleaned the oven today & HAD to air out the house.

[luvie]

Well, when you're desperate.....!!!! Bring him down and we'll see what we can do! :o)

The good part is that it keeps me outta the danger zone near the fridge!

[Kathy in Alaska]

The sharper image: Viewed from the earth, the Boomerang Nebula resembles its curved namesake, but when seen from the Hubble Space Telescope, it's more like an hourglass. The nebula is a reflecting cloud of dust and gas with two nearly symmetric cones of matter that is being ejected from a central star.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Hey! I'm fine .. and yourself? Just rolled in this evening after a full day in the car. Long day!

[luvie]

Hee-hee! Your cat would need a stepladder---but it could happen!

[luvie]

Hmmm--I never knew that she was doing steak poviere--uhhhh--what IS steak poviere? :o)

After all when ya have a golden retriever for a cook---the beef seems to just disappear! LOL!

[mylife]

Yipes! Id let that oven sit till Oct Nov L0L 96? at 10:00 pm?
Thats scorthin

[HiJinx]

Heh Heh...we'd better have known that by the time of the E-5 board!

[Mrs.Nooseman]

LOL.

Maybe I can teach him to do my laundry or the dishes.LOL.

[luvie]

Wow--good picture! It's very close to Estrogena! *snap*

[mylife]

Steak in peppercorn sauce

[NYTexan]

All he needs ta learn to cook is one of these and I'm all set! LOL

[StarCMC]

EWWWW! Full day in the car. Glad it was you not me!! LOL

[luvie]

*sigh* It feels GOOD there at 96? Sheesh! I guess I should quit complaining then! I am sooooo ready for 70's!

[luvie]

*sigh* It feels GOOD there at 96? Sheesh! I guess I should quit complaining then! I am sooooo ready for 70's!

[Intolerant in NJ]

In the military hospital where I worked on Okinawa if someone told you "the captain's been waiting for you" you started to pray real fast it was somebody from the Army and not from the Navy......