• Wing commander (Wg Cdr or W/C) is a senior officer rank used by some air forces, with origins from the Royal Air Force. The rank is used by air forces...
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  • Wing Commander is a 1999 science fiction film loosely based on the video game series of the same name. It was directed by Chris Roberts, the creator of...
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  • Officer Corps, commander (abbreviated "CDR") is a senior-grade officer rank, with the pay grade of O-5. Commander ranks above lieutenant commander (O-4) and...
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  • this includes the ranks of lieutenant commander/major/squadron leader, commander/lieutenant colonel/wing commander and naval captain/colonel/group captain...
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    Service Corps, commander (abbreviated "CDR") is a senior-grade officer rank, with the pay grade of O-5. Commander ranks above lieutenant commander (O-4) and...
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  • Navy) Lieutenant commander (United States Coast Guard) Lieutenant commander (Vanuatu Maritime Wing) "Triservice Officers Pay and Grade" (PDF). UK Government...
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  • commander is the officer assigned to command a military base. In the United States armed forces, a base commander is generally at least an O-6 grade officer...
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  • Space Force's E-5 grade with the Army and Marine Corps, in which sergeants hold the grade of E-5 and staff sergeants hold the grade of E-6. In the Air...
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    promoted to the grade of CAP colonel only upon appointment as a Region Commander, responsible for overseeing multiple states, or Wing Commander, responsible...
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  • navies stabilized, and the ranks of commander, lieutenant commander, and sub-lieutenant (or lieutenant, junior grade in the U.S. services) were introduced...
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  • grades of colonel, brigadier general, and major general are reserved for wing and region commanders, National Vice Commander, and National Commander respectively...
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  • carrier air wing commander (CAG) is the flag officer who is the carrier strike group commander, a surface or aviation rear admiral in the grade of OF 6 or 7...
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    A commander-in-chief or supreme commander (supreme commander-in-chief) is the person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed force or a...
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    to the grade of major in CAP. This level of training concentrates on members desiring to become leaders within the CAP. Every wing commander and region...
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  • promoted to first lieutenant. A second lieutenant (grade O-1) is usually promoted to first lieutenant (grade O-2) after 18 months in the Army or 24 months...
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  • pronunciation was included in editions of the OED up until the 1970s). The senior grade of lieutenant is known as first lieutenant in the United States, and as...
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  • company grade officer or junior field grade officer who serves as a staff administrative assistant to a senior officer, starting with a commander at the...
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    detached from other military units acting under the command of the battalion commander. In the Canadian Army, the battalion is the standard unit organisation...
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  • branches (headed by a lieutenant, junior grade or a chief petty officer). The CO of a Reserve squadron is also a commander, as is the XO who will also assume...
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  • Junior officer, company officer or company grade officer refers to the lowest operational commissioned officer category of ranks in a military or paramilitary...
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    Carrier Air Wing 7 (CVW-7) as deputy air wing commander from October 2009 through August 2011, embarked aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. The air wing, composed...
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  • A NATO standard grade scale is used by the NATO and its partners for the purpose of comparing military ranks across the member nations militaries, as...
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    31st Fighter Wing, 8th Fighter Wing, U.S. Air Force Weapons School, and 78th Fighter Squadron. He has also served as deputy commander of the U.S. Central...
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  • command to the Wing Commander is the Deputy Wing Commander who is and only can be a colonel. The senior enlisted personnel of a wing can be known as...
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  • sergeant, ordnance sergeant, hospital sergeant, three grades of master sergeant (junior grade), and six additional senior-level technical and specialist...
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  • enlisted pay grade E-1 AB – Air Base ABDR – Aircraft Battle Damage Repair ABM – Air Battle Manager ABU – Airman Battle Uniform ABW – Air Base Wing ACA – Airspace...
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  • senior staff officer at the squadron and wing level. In flying squadrons majors are generally flight commanders or assistant directors of operations. In...
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  • flight lieutenant and immediately below wing commander. It is usually equivalent to the rank of lieutenant commander in the navy and of the rank of major...
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  • Officer (armed forces) Warrant officer Lieutenant grades Lieutenant commander Lieutenant (junior grade) Sub-lieutenant "Subaltern". Dictionary.Reference...
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  • lieutenant-colonel in the Argentine Army, and a lieutenant-colonel or wing commander in other air forces. Commodore is a rank in the Royal Netherlands Air...
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