Officer
| This article is occupied with leading soldier, further meanings under Officer (term clarifying) |
Officer is the name for in officer rank. They have the responsibility for guidance, training and the employment of Federations. In the purely hierarchical organization into three groups of careers the officers reserve the first seat, have thus Command authority over the subordinated NCOS and those . The officers are divided again into grade categories.
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Germany
In Germany in principle the careers of the officer with respect to the troop service and the officer are to be differentiated in military-technical service. These differ according to the career/development, the typical uses and also regarding their ranks and career prospect.
Officers of the troop service
The recognized training as the officer in that lasts , Air Force and 15 months, before the officer candidates go to the university. In this time basic training and officer school become depending upon Armed service completed. The military training as the officer is after 36 months - evtl. by a study interrupted - finally.
During the training the officer candidates lead the rank additive OA and/or. ROA or the special candidate ranks
- Kanonier/ protects infantryman more /Flieger/sailor etc.. (OA)
- Private first class (OA)
- Upper private first class (OA)
- Fahnenjunker, sea-cadet (after one year) (like NCO)
- Wo1, wo1 to lake (like sergeants)
- Cw2, cw2 to lake (like main sergeants)
Officer candidates (OA) of the army and the Air Force carry a silver-colored braid, which gives to recognize them as officer candidates beside the rank insignia. OAs of the navy carry the golden five-pointed (officer s) star on the rank loop in place of the braid. Starting from the rank cw2 is silver ziseliert that written undertakings of the service uniform (Dh. they carry now the officer skirt with silver buttons and silver belt latch).
Since a study at one of the two is for troop officers Universities of the German Federal Armed Forces in (Helmut Schmidt university) and a component of the training as the officer. This is not compellingly necessary however in all service subranges (officer without study). Thus became in particular by working the Secretary of Defense at that time the occupation of officer in Germany academically. About 80% of the officers and officer candidates of a class study at one of the two universities.
During the training as the officer also fremdsprachenkenntnisse must attained and by SLP are proven. The stage which can be reached thereby differs depending upon Armed service and depends also on the later use within the German Federal Armed Forces.
Officer of the military-technical service (Offz milFD/"specialized officers")
In order to ensure the permeability of the grade categories in the German Federal Armed Forces, the career of the Offz was created milFD. These recruit themselves from the point of the sergeant ranks, which are suggested a request for changes into the career of the officers of the military-technical service to place to be able or by their subunit commander for a career change. In a selective procedure of selected sergeant ranks accomplished by the office for personnel of the German Federal Armed Forces usually go through also civilian-vocationally recognized training at a technical school that Armed services and afterwards at the respective officer school. The three-year training ends with the transport to the second lieutenant and assumption into the service relationship of an occupation soldier. The highest final rank for specialty service officers is a staff captain.
Into that US armed forces there is a completely similar career, i.e. those that Warrant Officer.
Grade categories
In the German Federal Armed Forces there are following officer ranks (with ascending rank and paying), divided in four grade categories. A characteristic is the rank additive "i.G."= in the general staff service:
| Army/Air Force | Navy | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Troop officers | Medical officers | Troop officers | Medical officers | |
| Second lieutenants | Second lieutenant | Second lieutenant to lake | ||
| First lieutenant | First lieutenant to lake | |||
| Main people/captain second lieutenants | Captain | Medical officer/pharmacist/veterinarian | Captain second lieutenant | Medical officer/pharmacist |
| Staff captain | Staff captain second lieutenant | |||
| Staff officers | Major | Upper medical officer/pharmacist/veterinarian | Lieutenant commander | Upper medical officer/pharmacist |
| Lieutenant colonel | Upper field physician/pharmacist/veterinarian | Commander | Flotilla physician/pharmacist | |
| Colonel | Colonel physician/pharmacist | Captain to lake | Fleet physician/pharmacist | |
| Generals, flying a flag officers (admirals) | Brigadier General | Surgeon general/pharmacist | Flotilla admiral | Admiral physician |
| Major general | General staff physician | Countering admiral | Admiral medical officer | |
| Lieutenant general | General upper medical officer | Vice Admiral | Admiral upper medical officer | |
| General | ||||
German Democratic Republic
In that GDR took place the training of the officers that NVA and that Kasernierten units of the Ministry of the inside on Officer universities in a three-year and off in a four years old study. It trained up to Utility position Company commander and a briefing into those Engagements guidance as Battalion commander. In each academic year a practical course became, beginning as Group leader, accomplished. They became after the diploma examination Second lieutenant appointed and usually as Platoon leader begun. Reserve officer candidate became at the end of the Basic military service from the best ones selected, in several courses at the officer university trained and after an examination to the officer also Rank Unterleutnant appointed. After three to four years old troop service some officers, also the VP readiness, were selected for the three-year study at the military academy of the NVA. There the training as the division commander took place and/or. for comparable utility positions.
Switzerland
Training
The entrance as an officer is connected not with an employment or an obligation of many years, but by the military service covered. One knows each year as a militia officer normally approx.. 4 weeks service carry out. The training as the officer lasts since (Army XXI) 53-57 weeks, dependent on function and training start. The tidy entrance turns out as follows:
| School | Duration | Transport too |
|---|---|---|
| General basic training with all service-carrying out | 7 weeks | Soldier |
| Candidate school with NCO candidates | 10 weeks | Upper private first class |
| Cadet school | 5 weeks | |
| Officer training course | 4 weeks | Upper being awake master |
| Officer school (usual designation of the candidates is Aspirant) | 15 weeks | Second lieutenant |
| practical service | 5/8 weeks, depending upon function | After second WK taken place automatically the transport to the first lieutenant. |
Partitioning
The group of the officers is as follows continued to partition:
| Group | Degrees |
|---|---|
| Subalternoffiziere | Second lieutenant |
| First lieutenant | |
| Main people | Captain |
| Specialized officer | |
| Staff officers | Major |
| Lieutenant colonel | |
| Colonel | |
| higher staff officers | Brigadier |
| Divisionaer | |
| Commander of corps | |
| Commander in chief of the army | General (becomes in the kriegsfall by the united selected) |
The USA
Officers in US armed forces
Zirka 15 per cent of the American soldiers are officers of the US army. One differentiates the officers between "Commissioned Officers"(off Second lieutenant) and "Warrant Officers"(WHERE), four and/or. (with US Army) five-stage Grade category of specialized officers in Wo1 rank.
One differentiates with active armed forces of the USA between "Regular" and "reserve" Officers. The "regular ones" of officers are the core of the occupation officers. Usually the right to a full military career is entitled to them with appropriate achievement. "reserve Officers on extended active duty" place far over 40 per cent of the active officers and are not not with reservists, who complete active duty trainings to confound. They serve for many years without formal difference to the elite status of a "Regular Officers", can without loss of the honour from the active service will however at any time dismiss.
The "warrant Officers" (WHERE) it is recruited predominantly from the crews. A sechswoechigen basic course follows a specialized training and the conscription as WHERE amounts to at least 3 years. They can become also on the same way as civilians second lieutenant and insist afterwards no more ascent delimitations.
The second lieutenant patent can be acquired in three kinds:
- Military academy, US Army, U. S. Navy and US air Forvce maintain in each case their own academy.
- Reserve officer training accompanying as the college study, so-called "ROTC reserve Officers training Corps" or
- Short training courses for graduates of college after branch of service "Officer Candidate School" (OCS) or "Officer training School" (OTS).
The military academy covers four years old training combined with intensive military-technical training and preparation on people guidance with one . Graduates of a military academy receive the "Regular Officer patent" and "Bachelor Degrees "and commit themselves at least 6 years active service. The graduates place at present approx.. and above average career prospects have 20 per cent of the new officers in the US Streitraeften.
The reserve officer training accompanying as the college study, so-called "ROTC" is offered at 500 colleges. The students receive weekly to 2 to 5 hours military-technical training, and in term holidays training camps or practical courses on military bases are accomplished. The active conscription amounts to usually 4 years.
The short training courses for graduates of college at the OCS/OTS schools consist of a three-month officer training course (basic Officer training OFFERED 12 weeks). Ungediente participate before in a achtwoechigen basic training; physical Fitness is an indispensable condition. The conscription amounts to at least 2 years.
Depending upon career field most officers, independently of the past training, visit for 3 to 18 months further special schools before the first troop use. Officers must plan their career carefully. Transports and even remaining in the service depend career steps "of the officer on the execution certainly" to given times. "it spends warrant Officers" (WHERE) the largest part of their career in a field of activity, against what a "Commissioned Officer" should be as more flexible as possible, versatile commander and therefore the correct "mixture" must show from troop and staff uses as well as uses within a special range. Further advanced training receives the officers also by training courses at the "CSG COMMAND and Staff college" of one of the armed services. In order to improve the capable of cooperationness between the armed services, a three-year use on "joint is intended Service" level for "Field of degrees of Officers" (ranks major to Colonels) and the experience with a command or a headquarter consisting of several branches of service is a condition for the transport for the general. Claimant by the "Joint service national Defense University" "national was college" prepares the officer for higher command and staff uses and promotes the ability for planning and operation on strategic level.
