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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.


Definitions

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 a 1978 document entitled STANAG 2116 (formally titled ''NATO Codes for Grades of Military Personnel'').


Officer ranks

OF-1 – OF-10 (bottom to top) are used for
commissioned officer An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an armed force or uniformed service. Broadly speaking, "officer" means a commissioned officer, a non-commissioned officer, or a warrant officer. However, absent context ...
s: * OF-6 – OF-10:
General officer A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED O ...
s * OF-3 – OF-5: Senior officers * OF-1 – OF-2: Junior officers


Other ranks

OR1–OR9 (bottom to top) are used for other ranks: * OR-5 – OR-9:
Non-commissioned officer A non-commissioned officer (NCO) is a military officer who has not pursued a commission. Non-commissioned officers usually earn their position of authority by promotion through the enlisted ranks. (Non-officers, which includes most or all enli ...
s * OR-1 – OR-4:
Enlisted rank An enlisted rank (also known as an enlisted grade or enlisted rate) is, in some armed services, any rank below that of a commissioned officer. The term can be inclusive of non-commissioned officers or warrant officers, except in United States m ...
s


Comparison to US system

The numbers in the system broadly correspond to the
U.S. uniformed services pay grades Pay grades are used by the eight uniformed services of the United States (Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps) to determine wages and benef ...
, with OR-x replacing E-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 Major (commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world. When used unhyphenated and in conjunction with no other indicators ...
is OF-3 on the NATO scale and O-4 on the US scale).


Ranks and insignia of member armed forces

Army * Ranks and insignia of NATO member army officers * Ranks and insignia of NATO army enlisted Air Force * Ranks and insignia of NATO member air force officers * Ranks and insignia of NATO member air force enlisted Navy * Ranks and insignia of NATO member navy officers * Ranks and insignia of NATO member navy enlisted


See also

* Comparative military ranks


References


Citations


Sources

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External links

* {{NATO