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

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:

• OF1 - OF10 (bottom to top) are used for officers
• OR1 - OR9 (bottom to top) are used for other ranks

This rank scale is used for specifying posts within NATO.

Contents 1 Ranks and insignia 1.1 Army 1.2 Air Force 1.3 Navy 2 See also 3 References 3.1 General references 3.2 Notes

[edit] Ranks and insignia

[edit] Army

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

[edit] Air Force

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

[edit] Navy

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

[edit] See also

• Comparative military ranks

[edit] References

[edit] General 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. 

[edit] Notes

Common military ranks
Officers
Navies	Armies	Air forces
Generalissimo
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	Lt. Colonel	Wing Commander
Lt. 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

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