Captain (United States Army, United States Air Force And United States Marines)
In the United States Army (), United States Marine Corps, U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), United States Air Force, U.S. Air Force (USAF), and United States Space Force, U.S. Space Force (USSF), captain (abbreviated "CPT" in the and "Capt" in the USMC, USAF, and USSF) is a Company (military unit), company-grade officer rank, with the U.S. uniformed services pay grades, pay grade of O-3. It ranks above first lieutenant and below Major (United States), major. It is equivalent to the rank of Lieutenant (naval), lieutenant in the Navy/Coast Guard officer rank system and should not be confused with the Navy/Coast Guard rank of Captain (United States O-6), captain. The insignia for the rank consists of two silver bars, with slight stylized differences between the Army/Air Force version and the Marine Corps version. History The U.S. military inherited the rank of captain from its British Army forebears. In the British Army, the captain was designated as the appropriate rank for the c ...
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, clause 1 of the United States Constitution (1789). See alsTitle 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001 The oldest and most senior branch of the U.S. military in order of precedence, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed 14 June 1775 to fight the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)—before the United States was established as a country. After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 to replace the disbanded Continental Army.Library of CongressJournals of the Continental Congress, Volume 27/ref> The United States Army considers itself to be a continuation of the Continental Army, and thus considers its institutional inception to be th ...
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