Company Officer

Second Lieutenant wears a single gold bar and receives a commission from the President with Senate confirmation, via West Point, R...

First Lieutenant wears a single silver bar and is promoted from second lieutenant after roughly eighteen to twenty-four months of ...

Captain wears two silver bars and commands a company of one hundred to two hundred soldiers, the first rank with unit command in i...

Ensign wears a single gold stripe and receives a commission through the Naval Academy, ROTC, or Officer Candidate School. New ensi...

Lieutenant Junior Grade wears one full and one thin stripe and is promoted from ensign after roughly two years. LTJGs continue as ...

Navy Lieutenant wears two full stripes and corresponds in grade, OF-2, to an Army captain, though the same title in the Army names...

Midshipmen at Annapolis and in NROTC hold a special status: sworn service members, paid, but officer candidates rather than rated ...

Sub-Lieutenant wears one full stripe of gold lace and is the first substantive commissioned rank in the Royal Navy, reached from m...

OF-1 is the bottom officer band of the NATO rank code system, standardized in STANAG 2116 so coalition headquarters can instantly ...

OF-2 marks the senior company officer grade: captain in most armies and marines, lieutenant in most navies, a source of constant c...

The military tribunes, tribuni militum, numbered six per legion in the republic and early empire: five junior, one senior, the tri...

Cornet was the junior officer of a cavalry troop, the equivalent of the infantry ensign, named for the cornet, the swallow tailed ...

A Royal Navy lieutenant wears two gold rings on the sleeve and ranks equal to an army captain, one level higher than the identical...