Ranks and insignia of NATO
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Comparative military ranks in English
Navies
UK commissioned officers
Admiral of
the fleet Field marshal or
General of the Army Marshal of
Admiral General Air chief marshal
Vice admiral Lieutenant general Air marshal
Rear admiral Major general Air vice-marshal
Commodore Brigadier or
brigadier general Air commodore
Captain Colonel Group captain
Commander Lieutenant colonel Wing commander
commander Major or
Commandant Squadron leader
Lieutenant Captain Flight lieutenant
junior grade or
sub-lieutenant Lieutenant or
first lieutenant Flying officer
Ensign or
midshipman Second lieutenant Pilot officer
Officer cadet Officer cadet Flight cadet
Enlisted grades
Warrant officer or
chief petty officer Warrant officer or
sergeant major Warrant officer
Petty officer Sergeant Flight sergeant
Leading seaman Corporal or
bombardier Corporal
Seaman Private or
gunner or
trooper Aircraftman or
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Ranks and insignia of NATO are combined military insignia used by the member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The rank scale is used for specifying posts within NATO.
1 Definitions
1.1 Officer ranks
1.2 Warrant officers
1.3 Other ranks
2 Comparison to other systems
3 Ranks and insignia
3.1 Army
3.2 Air Force
3.3 Navy
5.1 Citations
Definitions[edit]
NATO maintains a "standard rank scale" in an attempt to match every member country's military rank to corresponding ranks used by the other members. The rank categories were established, in 1978, in the document STANAG 2116, formally titled NATO Codes for Grades of Military Personnel. There are two scales, though not all member countries use all the points on the NATO scales and some have more than one rank at some points (e.g. many forces have two ranks at OF-1, usually lieutenants):
Officer ranks[edit]
OF1–OF10 (bottom to top) are used for commissioned officers ("officer / officier").[1]
Most countries do not have an intermediate tier of ranks between Officers and Other Ranks (see below). The exception is the United States, and the NATO warrant officer grades of WO1–WO5 (bottom to top) are used only for warrant officer ranks of the US military. In other countries with "Warrant Officer" ranks, they are considered part of Other Ranks. (For example a British Army WO1 has the NATO code OR-9.)
Other ranks[edit]
OR1–OR9 (bottom to top) are used for all Other Ranks ("other ranks/sous-officiers et militaires du rang"),[2] including non-commissioned officers and privates.
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Comparison to other systems[edit]
The numbers in the system broadly correspond to the US military pay grade system, with OR-x replacing E-x and WO-x replacing W-x. The main difference is in the commissioned officer ranks, where the US system recognises two ranks at OF-1 level (O-1 and O-2), meaning that all O-x numbers after O-1 are one point higher on the US scale than they are on the NATO scale (e.g. a major is OF-3 on the NATO scale and O-4 on the US scale).
NATO code
OF-10
OF-9
OF(D)
US DoD Pay Grade
OR-9
Ranks and insignia[edit]
Army[edit]
Ranks and insignia of NATO armies officers
Ranks and insignia of NATO armies enlisted
Air Force[edit]
Ranks and insignia of NATO air forces officers
Ranks and insignia of NATO air forces enlisted
Navy[edit]
Ranks and insignia of NATO navies officers
Ranks and insignia of NATO navies enlisted
Citations[edit]
^ NATO glossary of abbreviations used in NATO documents and publications / Glossaire OTAN des abréviations utilisées dans les documents et publications OTAN (PDF). 2010. p. 235.
"NATO CODES FOR GRADES OF MILITARY PERSONNEL. STANAG 2116. (Edition No. 4) NAVY/ARMY/AIR" (PDF). Royal Navy. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
"STANAG 2116 (Edition 5)". Latvian National Armed Forces. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
"person-type-rank-code". Multilateral Interoperability Programme. 13 December 2007. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2015-05-13.
"NATO Rank Comparison". Canadian Forces. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
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Maritime Command
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Supreme Allied Commander Transformation
Multilateral relations
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Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
Mediterranean Dialogue
Istanbul Cooperation Initiative
Partnership for Peace
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