No. There are 4, sometimes 5 ranks of General that are higher.
(brigadier general, major general, lieutenant general, general, and general of the army)
Colonel is the highest non-Flag/General officer rank. All the Generals must be nominated by the President and approved by the Senate. Colonels do not require this.
No. After Colonel, there are still four General ranks which follow.
This is filed under US ARmy and US Navy, so let me clarify.. A Captain in the Army is pay grade O3, whereas a Colonel in the Army is pay grade O6. Colonel is the higher of the two. The Navy has a different rank structure for officers than the other branches. A Captain in the Navy is 06 - equivalent to Colonel. The rank of Colonel does not exist in the Navy.
In the US Army, a full bird refers to a Colonel, which is the rank between Lieutenant Colonel and Brigadier General.
Lieutenant Colonel.
Sergeant Major of the Army is the highest rank NCO.
There is no rank called "colonial." The rank "Colonel" is below General and above Lt. Colonel, Major, Captain, and so on.
It depends which country and branch of service one is speaking of. The American military does not have the rank of Major-Colonel, the ranks of Major, Lt. Colonel and Colonel all out rank a Captain, unless the Captain is Navy or Coast Guard, then he would be equal in rank to the Colonel. In US Military, in all but the Navy, the order of these three ranks from lowest to highest is: * Captain * Major * Lieutentant Colonel * Colonel A Captiain in the Navy is the equivalent in rank of a Colonel in the Army, USAF or USMC
In the US Army, General.
Presidents do not appoint military officers. And if everyone you had in mind holds the rank of Colonel, then they'd all be of equal rank, although some may be in senior positions over others.
The highest Non-Commissioned Officer rank in the US Army is Sergeant Major of the Army. The current SMOA is Kenneth O. Preston.
Colonel in the US Army. He was also a Green Beret.
An officer in the United States Army who wears a silver eagle is typically a Colonel, which is a rank above Lieutenant Colonel and below Brigadier General. The silver eagle is worn on their collar insignia denoting their rank.
Very basically speaking, the difference is one step in rank. While a Lt. Colonel is normally referred to a Colonel, a Colonel is sometimes to referred to as a "full bird colonel" to distinguish the difference. In the Army at least, a Lt. Colonel wears a clover leaf rank insignia (silver, I think) but a full Colonel wears an eagle insignia, hence the reference "full bird."