Enlisted
E-1 = Private
E-2 = Private Second Class
E-3 = Private First Class
E-4 = Specialist/Corporal
E-5 = Sergeant
E-6 = Staff Sergeant
E-7 = Sergeant First Class
E-8 = Master Sergeant/First Sergeant
E-9 = Sergeant Major/Command Sergeant Major
Warrant Officer
WO1 = Warrant Officer 1
CW2 = Chief Warrant Officer 2
CW3 = Chief Warrant Officer 3
CW4 = Chief Warrant Officer 4
CW5 = Chief Warrant Officer 5
Officer
O-1 = Second Lieutenant
O-2 = First Lieutenant
O-3 = Captain
O-4 = Major
O-5 = Lieutenant Colonel
O-6 = Colonel
O-7 = Brigadier General
O-8 = Major General
O-9 = Lieutenant General
O-10 = General
2nd Lieutenant (Gold Bar)
1st Lieutenant (Silver Bar)
Captain (Two Silver Bars)
Major (Gold Oak Leaf)
Lieutenant Colonel (Silver Oak Leaf)
Colonel (Eagle)
Brigadier General (One Star)
Major General (Two Stars)
Lieutenant General (Three Stars)
General (Four Stars)
In recent years, Army Warrant Officers were also given commissioned officer status. There are five levels of Warrant Officer.
general of the Army
The rank structure in military serves many important purposes. The foremost is to maintain order and discipline in the rank and file and by instituting rank structure some men are made superior and responsible for others. Rank structure also serves as an incentive for all servicemen to work hard and progress upwards on the rank structure.
The Army Major outranks an Army Captain. Their relative power might have more to do with their jobs and responsibilities, though.
A corporal is a rank in the army
It would depend on which army you mean and the precise rank.
Sergeant Major of the Army is the highest rank NCO.
No, there is no rank of "Major Sergeant" in the Army Rangers. The ranks in the U.S. Army Rangers follow the same structure as the rest of the Army, including ranks such as Private, Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain, and Colonel.
Anyone in the US Army can lose their rank - in the late 1990s, the Sergeant Major of the Army was demoted. It's not as easy for an SFC to lose their rank as, say, a Specialist or Sergeant, but it can happen.
In the US Army, General.
The highest Non-Commissioned Officer rank in the US Army is Sergeant Major of the Army. The current SMOA is Kenneth O. Preston.
In the US Army, there's two ranks - Specialist, and Corporal. In the US Marines, it's just Corporal. The Specialist rank in the Army is not an NCO rank, whereas Corporal is.
Lieutenant Colonel.
See website: Pearl Harbor Attack See website: US Military Ranks (US Army, US Navy) The US Air Force did NOT exist during WW2. It was part of the US Army. The US Marine Corps is part of the US Navy. However, it's (officer) rank structure is the same as the US Army's.
Usually, a Captain.
General of the Army.
captain
In the US Army, a full bird refers to a Colonel, which is the rank between Lieutenant Colonel and Brigadier General.