Military rank is a system of hierarchical relationships in armed forces or civil institutions organized along military lines. Usually, uniforms denote the bearer's rank by particular insignia affixed to the uniforms. Ranking systems have been known for most of military history to be advantageous for military operations, in particular with regards to logistics, command, and coordination; as time continued and military operations became larger and more complex, military ranks increased and ranking systems themselves became more complex.

Within modern armed forces, the use of ranks is almost universal. Communist states have sometimes abolished rank (e.g., the Soviet Russian Red Army 1918–1935, the Chinese People's Liberation Army 1965–1988, and the Albanian Army 1966–1991), only to re-establish them after encountering operational difficulties of command and control.

Ancient and medieval ranks

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real world military regulations do exist for this occurrence unlike the procedure seen in ST TMP this does not involve demoting the current Captain to the rank of Commander Star Trek meets the Navy

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Officer pin on rank insignia full sized pin on insignia available in either Polished Brass or Subdued Sold by the pair Specify grade O 1 Second Lieutenant O 2 First Lieutenant O 3

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Before Serving as Commander an Chief what president held the highest military rank?
Q. Before Serving as Commander an Chief what president held the highest military rank?
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A. Dwight D. Eisenhower, General of the Army. By the way, it's Commander in Chief.
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Is military officer rank considered a professional title?
Q. Like how a physician has an official title of "Doctor" etc.
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possible a person of high military rank could get enough american support to overthrow the current government?
Q. do you think that a person of high military rank, that had the support of the military and a majority of americans, have a coup de'tat (swift overthrow of the government) or revolution seeing as how americans have alot of problem with the government with corruption, it not taking care of its people, social problems etc. do you think americans would support the new dictator i'm talkin about normal folk
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