What are the military ranks/status from most important to the bottom?

What are the military ranks/status from most important to the lowest rank.|||allen555 has pretty much nailed it, just one error.Lietenant General and Major General are the wrong way round as the Major General stands for Sergeant Major general. And lets not get into calvery ranks , all that corporal of the horse etc|||Yes, but lets face it a staff sergeant or warrant officer would outrank any commisioned officer below captain in reality.

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|||Allen555 answered well for the army. Here are the ranks in the Air Force.








Officers





Marshall of the Air Force


Air Chief Marshall


Air Marshall


Air Vice Marshall


Air Commodore


Group Captain


Wing Commander


Squadron Leader


Flight Lieutenant


Flying Officer


Pilot Officer








Other ranks





Warrant Officer


Flight Sergeant


Chief Technician*


Sergeant


Corporal


J/T-SAC(T)*


Senior Aircraftsman


Leading Aircraftsman


Aircraftsman





*Chief Technician, J/T (Junior Technician) and SAC(T) (Senior Aircraftsman (Technician)) are ranks that are only applicable to technical trades. The rank of J/T has almost been phased out now in favour of that of SAC(T).|||Field Marshall


General


Major General


Lieutenant General


Colonel


Lieutenant Colonel


Major


Captain


Lieutenant


2nd Lieutenant


Warrant Officer 1st Class


Warrant Officer 2nd Class


Staff/ Colour Sergeant


Corporal


Lance Corporal


Private





The Guards Regiments have a slightly different structure with Corporal of Horse replacing sergeant





The Corps Bombardiers in Artillery, Gunner and in the Royal Engineers the lowest rank is Sapper, in the Royal Corps of Signals it's Signaller.|||Most important? The lowest rank is the most important! Who do you think is fighting and winning our wars, a General sitting on his rear? The Soldier and his first line supervisor are the most important.|||from lowest to highest:





Private


Corporal


MasterCorporal


Sergent


Sergent Major


Warrant Officer


Master Warrant Officer


Cheif Warrant Officer


Leiutenant


Second Leiutenant


General


Captain|||see link below|||http://www.geocities.com/noelcox/Officer鈥?/a>


should tell you about the navy|||Here is a nice easy to read chart complete with insignias that go with the rank for all branches of the military





http://www.vetfriends.com/military_rank.鈥?/a>|||For a soldier in british army, lowest is pvt, highest is wo1|||Recruit to Sec. of defense.