Ranks and insignia of NATO

Common anglophone military ranks
Navies	Armies	Air forces
Officers
Admiral of the fleet	Marshal / field marshal	Marshal of the Air Force
Admiral	General	Air marshal
Commodore	Brigadier	Air commodore
Captain	Colonel	Group captain
Commander	Lieutenant colonel	Wing commander
Lieutenant commander	Major / commandant	Squadron leader
Lieutenant	Captain	Flight lieutenant
Sub-lieutenant	Lieutenant	Flying officer
Ensign	2nd lieutenant	Pilot officer
Midshipman	Officer cadet	Officer cadet
Seamen, soldiers and airmen
Warrant officer	Sergeant major	Warrant officer
Petty officer	Sergeant	Sergeant
Leading seaman	Corporal	Corporal
Seaman	Private	Aircraftman

Ranks and insignia of NATO are combined military insignia used by the member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The rank scale is used for specifying posts within NATO.

Definitions

NATO maintains a "standard rank scale" in an attempt to match every member country's military rank to corresponding ranks used by the other members. The rank categories were established in the document STANAG 2116, formally titled NATO Codes for Grades of Military Personnel. There are two scales, though not all member countries use all the points on the NATO scales and some have more than one rank at some points:

Officer ranks

• OF1–OF10 (bottom to top) are used for officers^[1]

Other ranks

• OR1–OR9 (bottom to top) are used for other ranks^[2]

Warrant officers

• WO1-WO5 (bottom to top) are used for United States warrant officers only.

Other countries use only regular officer ranks, do not have warrant officers, or warrant officers are considered as Other or Enlisted Rank).

Ranks and insignia

Army

• Ranks and insignia of NATO Armies Officers
• Ranks and insignia of NATO Armies Enlisted

Air Force

• Ranks and insignia of NATO Air Forces Officers
• Ranks and insignia of NATO Air Forces Enlisted

Navy

• Ranks and insignia of NATO Navies Officers
• Ranks and insignia of NATO Navies Enlisted

See also

• Comparative military ranks

References

• STANAG 2116: NATO Codes for Grades of Military Personnel. NATO. 13 March 1996. 
• "person-type-rank-code". Multilateral Interoperability Programme. 13 December 2007. http://www.mip-site.org/publicsite/04-Baseline_3.0/JC3IEDM-Joint_C3_Information_Exchange_Data_Model/HTML-Browser/domains/person-type-rank-code.html. Retrieved 2009-06-24. 
• "NATO Rank Comparison". Canadian Forces. http://army.ca/wiki/index.php/NATO_Rank_Comparison. Retrieved 2009-06-24. 

1. ^ The abbreviation "OF" stand for "officer / officier" see: NATO glossary abbreviations used in NATO documents and publications / Glossaire OTAN des abréviations utilisées dans les documents et publications OTAN. 2010. p. 234. http://www.nato.int/docu/stanag/aap015/2010-aap15.pdf. 
2. ^ The abbreviation "OR" stand for "other ranks / sous-officiers et militaires du rang" see: NATO glossary abbreviations used in NATO documents and publications / Glossaire OTAN des abréviations utilisées dans les documents et publications OTAN. 2010. p. 237. http://www.nato.int/docu/stanag/aap015/2010-aap15.pdf.