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5 unusual facts about military rank


Below the zone

Upon selection for promotion, the Airmen will then receive a date upon which their newly assigned rank of Senior Airman will take effect.

Deputy superintendent

Deputy superintendent, or deputy superintendent of police (DSP), was a rank used by police forces of the British Empire.

Israeli Naval Academy

The course is nearly three years long, and cadets graduate with a B.A. from Haifa University and an Officer rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade.

M4 carbine

The United States Marine Corps has ordered its officers (up to the rank of lieutenant colonel) and Staff Non-commissioned officers to carry the M4 carbine instead of the M9 handgun.

Weighted Airman Promotion System

The WAPS Promotion Score Calculator is used by enlisted airmen to estimate the minimum test score for promotion to the next enlisted rank.


Ambush of Geary

Cornet Francis Geary was the eldest son and heir of Admiral Sir Francis Geary and Mary Bartholomew.

Bulawa

Historically the buława was an attribute of a Hetman, an officer of the highest military rank (after the monarch) in 15th- to 18th-century Kingdom of Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and of the Otaman of Ukraine or the military head of a Cossack state (Cossack Hetmanate).

Edward Quillinan

After spending some time without any occupation, he entered the army as a cornet in a cavalry regiment, from which, after seeing some service at Walcheren, he passed into another regiment, stationed at Canterbury.

Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès

In St. Petersburg, he succeeded in entering the Knights Guards of the Empress as cornet.

James A. Leonard

In 1861, Leonard visited Philadelphia, where he played a match against William Dwight, who later became a general in the Union Army.

Jean de Schulemberg

He attended a course of studies at the Academy of Sedan, but at the age of sixteen served as cornet (standard-bearer) to the Protestant Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, sovereign prince of Sedan, whom he followed at the siege of Vercelli in Piedmont (1614), and then at the battle of Prague, 8 November 1620.

Lieutenant commander

In the Royal Canadian Navy, the rank is the naval rank equal to Major in the army or air force and is the first senior officer rank.

Sir John Hamilton-Dalrymple, 5th Baronet

An army officer, he served as a cornet in the 28th Light Dragoons in 1795, rising through the ranks of lieutenant in 1797, captain in 1800 and then going on to half-pay in 1802 during the Peace of Amiens.

Taewonsu

Taewŏnsu (literally grand marshal, usually translated as generalissimo) is the highest possible military rank of North Korea and is intended to be an honorific title for the nation’s Great Leaders.


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Crispiniano Quiñones Quiñones

The highest military rank attained by him was Brigadier General, and he retired from active duty in 1993 being the Commander of the 13th Brigade, headquartered in Bogotá.

Franz von Mercy

By the latter year he had attained high military rank, and after distinguishing himself at the first Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) he commanded a regiment of foot on the Rhine and defended Rheinfelden against the Swedes with the utmost bravery, surrendering only after enduring a five-months' siege.

General Service Training School

Recruits are given instruction in military history, customs and courtesies, drill, rifle shooting and maintenance, life saving, military administrative procedures, orienteering and map reading, NBC warfare, military rank structures, insignia recognition, interior economy, and ten days in the field at RNZAF Dip Flat in which the CRTS training is put to the test.

Gerardo Meléndez

Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) of the United States Army, located at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, which in military rank equivalent would place him at the 2-star General Officer level.

Hemayet Uddin

For his valor, he was awarded the honor Bir Bikrom, a national award for gallantry and was conferred a military rank of Subedar after the war.

Jean-Louis Pierrot

Furthermore, Pierrot had displeased the army by conferring military rank on the leaders of the peasants of the Sud Department and on many of their followers.

Jean-Louis-Brigitte Espagne

Jean-Louis-Brigitte Espagne, Count d'Espagne and of the Empire (born 16 February 1769 in Auch, died 21 May 1809 on the island of Lobau) was a French cavalry commander of the French Revolutionary Wars, who rose to the top military rank of General of Division and took part to the Napoleonic Wars.

Military ranks and insignia of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Military rank system and military insignia of Bosnia and Herzegovina shows the military rank system and insignias used by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina that existed from 1992 to 2005 and the current Armed Forces of Bosnia-Herzegovina (OSBIH - Oruzane Snage Bosne i Hercegovine) that exists from 2006 to present.

Nils Olav

Nils Olav was given the rank of visekorporal (lance corporal) and has been promoted each time the King's Guard has returned to the tattoo.

Sardar

As a military rank, a Sardar typically marked the Commander-in-Chief or the highest-ranking military officer in an Army, akin to the modern Field Marshal, General of the Army or Chief of Army.

Wonsu

Wonsu is a very high military rank of the armed forces of the Republic of Korea and of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.