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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Senior officer (redirect from Field Grade Officers)
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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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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Navy) Lieutenant commander (United States Coast Guard) Lieutenant commander (Vanuatu Maritime Wing) "Triservice Officers Pay and Grade" (PDF). UK Government...
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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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Lieutenant (navy) (redirect from Lieutenant (Senior Grade))
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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Ranks of the Civil Air Patrol (redirect from Civil Air Patrol Grade Insignia)
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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the world. Sergeants Major serve as the senior enlisted advisor to the commander. In 16th century Spain, the Sargento mayor ("sergeant major") was a general...
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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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Lieutenant (section Lieutenant commander)
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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Battalion (redirect from Battalion Commander)
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 (redirect from Company-grade officer)
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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other countries. In NATO forces, brigadier is OF-6 on the rank scale. "The grade of brigadier-general, also called, almost interchangeably, brigadier, first...
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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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Structure of the United States Air Force (section Wing)
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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some air forces to describe all grades of generals, and air officer, used by other air forces to describe all grades of air marshals and air commodores...
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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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multiple grades of shadow soldiers, including basic grade, normal grade, elite grade, knight grade, elite knight grade, commander/general grade, marshal/commander...
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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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