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Comparative military ranks
Armies, air forces (non-Commonwealth)
Navies, coast guard
Air forces (Commonwealth system)
Flag commissioned officers
Field marshal
Admiral of the fleet
Marshal of the air force
General or colonel general or army general
Admiral
Air chief marshal
Lieutenant general or army corps general
Vice admiral
Air marshal
Major general or divisional general
Rear admiral or Counter admiral
Air vice-marshal
Brigadier or brigadier general
Commodore or flotilla admiral
Air commodore
Senior commissioned officers
Colonel
(Ship-of-the-Line) Captain
Group captain
Lieutenant colonel
Frigate captain or Commander
Wing commander
Major or commandant
Corvette captain or Lieutenant commander
Squadron leader
Junior commissioned officers
Captain
Lieutenant
Flight lieutenant
First lieutenant or lieutenant
Lieutenant junior grade or sub-lieutenant
Flying officer
Second lieutenant or junior lieutenant
Ensign or midshipman
Pilot officer
Officer cadet
Officer cadet
Flight cadet
Non-commissioned officers
Warrant officer or sergeant major
Warrant officer or chief petty officer
Warrant officer
Sergeant
Petty officer
Sergeant
Enlisted ranks
Corporal or bombardier
Leading seaman
Corporal
Lance corporal or Lance bombardier or Specialist
Able seaman
Leading aircraftman
Private or gunner or trooper or sapper
Seaman
Aircraftman or airman or aviator
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Colonel general is a military rank used in some armies. The rank originates from the Old European System and it is particularly associated with Germany, where historically general officer ranks were one grade lower than in the Commonwealth and the United States, and Generaloberst was a rank above full General, but below Generalfeldmarschall. The rank of colonel general also exists in the armed forces organized along the lines of the Soviet model, where it is comparable to that of a lieutenant general.
Colonelgeneral is a military rank used in some armies. The rank originates from the Old European System and it is particularly associated with Germany...
of this period, the senior colonel in the army or, in a field force, the senior military contractor, was the colonelgeneral, and, in the absence of the...
Lieutenant colonelgeneral (Serbo-Croatian: генерал-потпуковник, general-potpukovnik, lit. 'general sub-colonel') is a general officer rank in a number...
lieutenant general normally ranks immediately below general (or colonelgeneral) and above major general; it is equivalent to the navy rank of vice admiral...
naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel. The adjective general had been affixed to officer designations...
German colonelgenerals. Generals later promoted to general field marshal (GFM) are not included. See also: ⇒ de: List of the German Empire's colonel generals...
Brigadier general or brigade general is a military rank used in many countries. The rank is usually above a colonel, and below a major general or divisional...
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Senior colonel is an officer rank usually placed between a regular colonel and a British or American brigadier general. In Nazi Germany, a rank equivalent...
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34th on the general list, he superseded 33 other Lieutenant Colonels of Indian Army, along with him all of the British Army's Lieutenant Colonel serving with...
town. The equivalent of colonel-general in the German Navy was the rank of Generaladmiral ("general admiral" or "admiral-general"). In 1870, Prince Friedrich...
The following list of colonelgenerals denotes those who have held the rank of colonelgeneral in the respective military forces of their countries. Sonomyn...
as co-author and his main inspiration, though Klokotov denies this. ColonelGeneral Leonid Ivashov, head of the International Department of the Russian...
A Generaloberst ("colonelgeneral") was the second-highest general officer rank in the German Reichswehr and Wehrmacht, the Austro-Hungarian Common Army...
which is the lowest rank, to colonelgeneral – with only these exceptions: there are no ranks of Yefreytor, Army General, or Marshal. Detectives (Russian:...
at giving such an opulent estate to someone with the rank of only a Colonel-General. In 1950, Guderian published a pamphlet entitled Can Europe Be Defended...
began operation on 20 October 2010, under the command of Colonel-General Valery Gerasimov. General Lieutenant Roman Berdnikov took over command on 3 October...
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