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The terms wing, group or Staffel are used for different-sized units from one country or service to another. Lead the Competition provides a list of equivalent ranks of Officers and Personnel below Officer Ranks in Indian Army, Indian Navy and Indian Air Force for competitive exams in India. Lining up equivalent ranks in the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force with their counterparts in the United States Army is not an exact science, so the chart below is intended as a rough guide only:Please wait while we check that you are connected to the BBC internal networkSorry, we couldn't confirm that you were on the BBC internal network According to Unlike their USAF counterparts, all USN and USMC air wings are tenant activities ashore and have no command responsibility for the installation at which they are normally based when not afloat or forward deployed. This is how it will look. These officers are tasked to command troop formations ranging from operational Platoon/Company sized bodies to strategic brigade, division, Corp sized formations. The ranks of the UK armed services can be confusing. EQUIVALENT RANKS OF THE BRITISH SERVICES AND U.S. AIR FORCE TRoyal Navy T TArmy T TRoyal Air Force T TUS Air Force T Sub Lieutenant Lieutenant Flying Officer First Lieutenant Midshipman Second Lieutenant Pilot Officer Second Lieutenant Notes: 1.

To distinguish Royal Marines from their Army colleagues, their name should be followed by the words ‘Royal Marines’ or ‘RM’ - for example, ‘Lt Jack Smith Royal Marines’ or ‘Sgt Tom Brown RM’.To distinguish naval ranks from army ranks, such as captain and lieutenant, all Royal Navy officer ranks below admiral (midshipman all the way up to commodore) are followed by the words ‘Royal Navy’ or ‘RN’ - for example, ‘Lt Jack Smith Royal Navy’ or ‘Lt Jack Smith RN’.The term ‘officer’ refers to someone with a commission. Lt. General ( लेफ्टिनेंट जनरल ) 5 Major General ( मेजर जनरल) 6 Brigadier ( ब्रिगेडियर) 7 Colonel ( कर्नल ) 8 Lt. Army officers don't like the present equivalencies and rightly so. The rank status of army officers have declined very much from our Independence. Warrant officers do not hold one. In most Commonwealth air forces, as well as some others, a wing is usually made up of three or four squadrons.In these air forces a wing is inferior to a group. Equivalent military ranks in the UK Navy, Army, Air Force and US Army, edited by Dr Duncan Anderson of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Current Affairs by SSBCrack ‐ 0. Seeing an Army and a RAF officer together, I was never sure if they were of equivalent rank or if one was senior to the other. The Royal Flying Corps was amalgamated with the Royal Naval Air Service in 1918, creating the Additionally countries influenced by the US in the building of their modern air forces also use the term A wing may also be used for non-flying units, such as the "In many cases, the numerical designation of the wing "The Air Force has three basic types of wings: operational, air base, and specialized mission. Wing Commander Lieutenant Colonel Lieutenant Commander Major Squadron Leader Major Lieutenant Captain Flight Lieutenant Captain. The rank of wing commander was derived from the naval rank of commander via the usage in the World War I Royal Naval Air Service. Indian Army 1 Chief of Army Staff (थल सेनाध्यक्ष ) 2. Formerly equivalent to the Army rank of major, a commander is now equivalent in rank to a lieutenant colonel in the British Army or a wing commander in the Royal Air Force.