U.S. Army ranks
marcvo
Hi!
I'm looking for the U.S. Army ranks. I have already got pictures of
them.
But I'm not sure if the names belong to the rank pictures in the right
way. So, does anyone have a complete and right picture of the ranks?
And which ranks belong to the class of noncommissioned officers and to
the lower class (pvts and so, don't knwo the name of this group). The
class of officiers are already known.
Hoping for answers
Marc Vogel
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John M Atkinson
marcvo <mar...@metronet.de> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I'm looking for the U.S. Army ranks. I have already got pictures of
>them.
>But I'm not sure if the names belong to the rank pictures in the right
>way. So, does anyone have a complete and right picture of the ranks?
>
>And which ranks belong to the class of noncommissioned officers and to
>the lower class (pvts and so, don't knwo the name of this group). The
>class of officiers are already known.
Junior enlisted
E-1 Private Pvt No Insignia
E-2 Private Pv2 One Chevron
E-3 Private First Class PFC Chevron w/ rocker
E-4 Specialist SPC Black thing with eagle on it
Non-Commissioned Officers
E-4 Corporal CPL 2 chevrons
E-5 Sergeant SGT 3 chevrons
E-6 Staff Sergeant SSG 3 chevrons, 1 rocker
E-7 Sergeant First Class SFC 3 chevrons, 2 rockers
E-8 Master Sergeant MSG 3 chevrons, 3 rockers
E-8 First Sergeant 1SG 3 chevrons, 3 rockers, lozenge in middle
E-9 Sergeant Major SGM 3 chevrons, 3 rockers, star in middle
E-9 Command Sergeant Major CSM 3 chevrons, 3 rockers, star in wreath
E-9 Sergeant Major of the Army SMA 3 chevrons, 3 rockers, eagle flanked by
two stars
Warrent Officers
WO1 Warrent Officer 1 silver bar with black square
CW2 Chief Warrent Officer 2 Silver bar, 2 black squares
CW3 Chief Warrent Officer 3 Silver bar, 3 black squares
CW4 Chief Warrent Officer 4 Silver bar, 4 black squares
MW5 Master Warrent Officer Silver bar, 4 black square outlines
Squeezed in here is the rank of "cadet" (silver circle) which is
technically an officer rank, held by ROTC/USMA cadets who are temporarily
on duty with a regular unit.
Also, canidates at OCS (Officer Canidate School) wear gold "O.C." meaning
Officer Canidate. Those at WOCS (Warrent Officer Canidate School) wear
gold "W.O.C" to indicate Warrent Officer Canidate.
Officers
O1 Second Lieutenant 2LT Gold Bar
O2 First Lieutenant 1LT Silver Bar
O3 Captain CPT 2 silver bars, connected "railroad tracks"
O4 Major MAJ Gold Oak Leaf
O5 Lieutenant Colonel LTC Silver Oak Leaf
O6 Colonel COL Silver Eagle
O7 Brigadier General BG 1 silver star
O8 Major General MG 2 silver stars
O9 Lieutenant General LTG 3 silver stars
O10 General GEN 4 silver stars
O10 General of the Army 5 silver stars arranged in pentagon
This rank is only created in wartime. The last General of the Army
was Omar Bradley.
There also exists the rank of "General of the Armies" senior to General of
the Army. It was held only by General Pershing. George Washington was
posthumously promoted to that rank permenantly by an Act of Congress in
1976. All ranks higher than LTG are held "temporarily", it taking an Act
of Congress to make those ranks permenant.
All colors given are full-color. Subdued insignia is black for enlisted
personell, and for officers with silver insignia. Brown replaced gold
officer insignia. Warrent officers wear green bars with black squares.
HTH
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John M. Atkinson
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M94772
E-1 Pvt nothing
E-2 Pvt One Stripe
E-3 PFC One Stripe, one rocker (bottom)
E-4 CRP Two Stripes
Spec-4 Spec Badge
E-5 SGT Three Stripes
E-6 SSGT Three Stripes, one rocker
E-7 SFC Three Stripes, two rockers
E-8 MSGT Three Stripes, three rockers
E-9 FSGT Three Stripes, three rockers, diamond
E-9 SGM Three Stripes, three rockers, star
E-9 CSM Three Stripes, three rockers, two stars
E-9 SGMA Three Stripes, three rockers, two stars and wreath
O-1 2LT Gold bar
O-2 1LT Silver bar
O-3 CAP 2 Silver bars
O-4 MAJ Gold Oaf Leaf
O-5 LTC Silver Oaf Leaf
O-6 COL Silver Eagle
Niel Smith
On Fri, 10 Jan 1997 00:07:48 -0800, marcvo <mar...@metronet.de> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I'm looking for the U.S. Army ranks. I have already got pictures of
>them.
>But I'm not sure if the names belong to the rank pictures in the right
>way. So, does anyone have a complete and right picture of the ranks?
>
>And which ranks belong to the class of noncommissioned officers and to
>the lower class (pvts and so, don't knwo the name of this group). The
>class of officiers are already known.
>
>Hoping for answers
>
>Marc Vogel
>
>
Ranks:
Officers:
General - 4 stars
Lieutenant General - 3 stars
Major General - 2 stars
Brigadier General - 1 Star
Colonel - Silver Eagle
Lt. Colonel - Silver Oak Leaf
Major - Gold Oak Leaf
Captain - two connected silver bars
1st Lieutenant - Single Silver Bar
2nd Lieutenant - Single Gold Bar
Enlisted:
Sergeant Major of the Army - Three stripes up, three down, and two
stars in the middle
Command Sergeant Major - 3 up, 3 down, star in middle surrounded by
palms(or something)
Sergeant Major - 3 up, 3 down, star in middle
Master Sergeant - 3 up, 3 down
Sergeant First Class - 3 up 2 down
Staff Sergeant - 3 up, 1 down
Sergeant 3 up
Corporal - 2 up
Specialist, looks like an inverted triangle with a curved bottom.
Private First Class - One stripe up, one rocker down
Private - one stripe.
Hope you can put this with your pictures!
Niel Smith
cMAJ, JMU ROTC
Bob Dobson
minor ommission
First Sergeant - 3 up, 3 down, diamond in the middle
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Niel Smith
On 13 Jan 1997 18:31:14 GMT, John M Atkinson <jatk...@gmu.edu> wrote:
>Squeezed in here is the rank of "cadet" (silver circle) which is
>technically an officer rank, held by ROTC/USMA cadets who are temporarily
>on duty with a regular unit.
>
Error Here - true for ROTC, not for USMA. USMA cadets on CTLT wear
the West Point crest as their rank. I lived with 8 USMA cadets during
CTLT at Ft. Irwin. None had 'pips' or had seen them.
Later,
Niel Smith
cMAJ, JMU ROTC
Tanker 06
>>E-4 CRP Two Stripes
A Corporal's abbreviation is CPL
>>Spec-4 Spec Badge
The E-4 is called Specialist now. Been like that since
`88 or so. They decided that since there weren't any Spec-5
or Spec-6's anymore, it was redundant.
Jerry