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The rank of lieutenant colonel has existed in the British Army since at least the 16th century and was used in both American colonial militia and colonial regular regiments. [5] The Continental Army continued the British and colonial use of the rank of lieutenant colonel, [6] as the second-in-command to a colonel commanding a regiment. [7]
Lieutenant colonel (UK: / l ɛ f ˈ t ɛ n ən t ˈ k ɜːr n əl / lef-TEN-ənt KUR-nəl, US: / l uː ˈ t ɛ n-/ loo-TEN-) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colonel. The ...
Colonel: Lieutenant colonel: Major: Captain: First lieutenant: ... depending on rank. Colonels, lieutenant colonels and majors plain gold (infantry: silver) epaulets ...
For example, when a ranked Lieutenant Colonel of Bengal Presidency's Indian Army was promoted to Colonel he was ranked 34th on the general list, he superseded 33 other Lieutenant Colonels of Indian Army, along with him all of the British Army's Lieutenant Colonel serving with the Bengal Presidency were also given the honorary rank of Colonel of ...
Cadet Lieutenant Colonel (C/Lt Col) Cadet Major (C/Maj) Cadet Captain (C/Capt) Cadet First Lieutenant (C/1st Lt) Cadet Second Lieutenant (C/2d Lt) Pay grade** C/O-6 C/O-5 C/O-4 C/O-3 C/O-2 C/O-1 * Cadet captain is the rank that the leader of a NJROTC unit holds if the unit has reached the cadet enrollment requirements to be rated as a regiment.
Colonel (Ship-of-the-line) Captain: Group captain: Lieutenant colonel: Frigate captain or Commander: Wing commander: Major or commandant: Corvette captain or Lieutenant commander: Squadron leader: Junior officers; Captain: Lieutenant: Flight lieutenant: First lieutenant or lieutenant: Lieutenant junior grade or sub-lieutenant: Flying officer ...
A colonel (/ ˈ k ɜːr n əl /) in the United States Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and Space Force, is the most senior field-grade military officer rank, immediately above the rank of lieutenant colonel and just below the rank of brigadier general. Colonel is equivalent to the naval rank of captain in the other uniformed services. [note 1] By ...
The Assistant Chief holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and reports directly to the Colonel and has authority over the units. Majors are responsible for a command within the Highway Patrol. A captain is a troop commander in the Field Operations Bureau or a division commander in one of the other bureaus.