The Military ranks of Serbia are the military insignia used by the
Serbian Armed Forces.
Current ranks of the Serbian Armed Forces
Note:
Serbian River Flotilla
The Serbian River Flotilla ( sr, Речна флотила, Rečna flotila) is a tactical brigade-level brown water naval branch of the Serbian Armed Forces. Patroling on the Danube, Sava, and Tisa rivers, it is tasked with environmental polici ...
is a brigade-level
brown water naval branch of the Serbian Armed Forces, subordinated to the
Serbian Army.
Officers
The rank insignia of
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.
Enlisted
The rank insignia of
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 and
enlisted personnel.
Historical ranks
Following the unification of the Kingdom of Serbia into
Kingdom SHS (later Kingdom Yugoslavia), the ranks were replaced with the
Military ranks of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
Commissioned officer ranks
There were only three general ranks in Serbian Royal Army: General (from 1872), Army General (from 1900 to 1901) and
Vojvoda (from 1901). Four general ranks were used in Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in 1923, and lasted until 1945. There were only two types of shoulder cords: with double-headed eagle and coat of arms of Kingdom of SHS or Kingdom of Yugoslavia for Vojvoda and without for all other General ranks. The different general grades were indicated by 6-pointed stars on the cuffs. Also the backing cloth for the shoulder cords was light blue for army general (was honorary rank in the period from 1900–1901) and divisional generals and in a colour of service for brigadier general. During the Middle Ages, the Vojvoda was a military commander rank and a noble titule. In the
Balkan Wars
The Balkan Wars refers to a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan States in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, the four Balkan States of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria declared war upon the Ottoman Empire and defe ...
and World War I this title was used to designate the highest military rank in Serbian Army and later Royal Yugoslav Army (above the General - as equivalent of Field Marshal in other armies). This rank was introduced by the law on the ''Organization of the Army'' Kingdom of Serbia in 1901. It has been awarded only during the war for: ''special merits of top generals''. The first Vojvoda was promoted by the ''Great military decree'' of the Kingdom of Serbia on 20 October 1912. Only four people ever officially held that military rank:
Radomir Putnik
Radomir Putnik ( sr, Радомир Путник; ; 24 January 1847 – 17 May 1917) was the first Serbian Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian army in the Balkan Wars and in the First World War. He served in every war in ...
(got it in 1912),
Stepa Stepanović (1914),
Živojin Mišić (1914) and
Petar Bojović (1918).
The rank insignia of
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.
Other ranks
The rank insignia of
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 and
enlisted personnel.
See also
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Military ranks of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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Yugoslav People's Army ranks
The Yugoslav People's Army ranks are the military insignia used by the Yugoslav People's Army.
Ranks (1945–1947) Officers
The rank insignia for commissioned officers for the Ground forces, Navy and Air force respectively.
Enlisted
The rank ins ...
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Ranks and insignia of the Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro
Ranks and insignia of the Military of Serbia and Montenegro were the military insignia used by the Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro. The Military of Serbia and Montenegro used the same military ranks insignia as Yugoslav People's Army, with s ...
References
External links
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{{Military ranks by country
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