SPC is the abbreviation for Specialist. Currently, there is only one grade of Specialist - E4. Specialist grades used to go all the way up to E9 (although the Specialist 9 or SP9 was only theoretical - nobody had ever actually been awarded that rank). At that time, the E4 Specialist was abbreviated as SP4. However, all the Specialist grades above E4 have since been done away with, so there was no need to indicate the pay grade with the rank, thus the abbreviation became SPC.
March of 1955.
The E-8 Specialist rank is not equivalent to a Sergeant rank. In the Army, the E-8 Specialist is a higher enlisted rank compared to the E-5 Sergeant rank. The E-8 Specialist is a non-commissioned officer with greater leadership responsibilities and experience.
In the US Army, there's two ranks - Specialist, and Corporal. In the US Marines, it's just Corporal. The Specialist rank in the Army is not an NCO rank, whereas Corporal is.
Specialist is a rank - Pay Grade E-4 - which is classed as lower enlisted. Pay is equal to that of a Corporal, but Corporal is the higher rank of the two (Corporal is a noncommissioned officer rank, Specialist is not).
Specialist Fifth Class was an E-5.
Just "Specialist".
Not anymore. That particular rank was done away with in 1985.
Anyone in the US Army can lose their rank - in the late 1990s, the Sergeant Major of the Army was demoted. It's not as easy for an SFC to lose their rank as, say, a Specialist or Sergeant, but it can happen.
Specialist 5 - it's a discontinued Army rank. A Specialist got the same pay as a Sergeant (also pay grade E5), but was not a noncommissioned officer.
Yes, and I was one of them
T.Sgt is the abbreviation for the current Air Force Rank. SGT (T) was the abbreviation for the Army rank with later gave way to the various Specialist ranks,, which were then reduced to only one Specialist rank.
One which doesn't exist. The 'tech' ranks were replaced by the Specialist ranks (of which, only Specialist 4 is still in use).