United Kingdom and United States military ranks compared
UK and US officer ranks compared
(Rank codes are at each side of the table.)
Not listed are U.S. warrant officers. In accordance with , US Department of the Army Pamphlet (DA Pam) 600-11 and US Army Field Manual (FM) 22-100 , a warrant officer is an officer who can and does command, carry out military justice actions and sits on both selection and promotion boards. A US warrant officer is a single-track specialty officer, initially appointed by the US Secretary of the Army; he/she receives a commission upon promotion to Chief Warrant Officer Two (CW2).
OF-10 ranks in the United States can only be attained during war time; the last five-star officer died in 1981. This is also now generally the case in the UK, although provision is made to award them under special circumstances in peacetime (no promotions to these ranks have been made since they were generally suspended in 1997). Captain-General, Royal Marines is a......