Pay Grade / Army Title
Navy Title |
Insignia on Collar
Navy Sleeves |
Famous Examples |
O-11
GA General of the Army,
General of the Air Force
FADM Fleet Admiral |
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George Washington
(promoted to "Six-star General of the Armies" in 1976)
Dwight
Eisenhower
Omar Bradley
Douglas MacArthur
William "Bull"
Halsey
Chester Nimitz
George C. Marshall
Henry "Hap" Arnold
John
"Black Jack" Pershing |
O-10
GEN General
ADM Admiral |
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Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
William Tecumseh
Shermann
Colin
Powell
"Stormin Norman"
Schwarzkoff
George "Blood & Guts"
Patton
William
Westmoreland
Alexander
Haig
Henry Shelton
(Chairmen, Joint Chiefs of Staff)
James Earl Jones in Hunt
for Red October, Patriot
Games, and Clear
and Present Danger
Robert Loggia in Independence
Day
George C. Scott & Sterling Hayden in Dr.
Strangelove
Richard Basehart in Voyage
to the Bottom of the Sea (TV)
Walter Pidgeon in Voyage
to the Bottom of the Sea (movie) |
O-9
LTG or LGN Lieutenant General
VADM Vice Admiral |
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Nathan Bedford
Forrest (founded Ku Klux Klan)
Lewis "Chesty" Puller
James "Jimmy" Doolittle
Grace
Hopper (coined the term debug) |
O-8
MG or MGN Major General
RADM Rear Admiral, Upper Half
obsolete: Rear Admiral |
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James
Garfield
Rutherford
B. Hayes
Benedict
Arnold
John
Paul Jones
George Armstrong Custer
T.J. "Stonewall" Jackson
Andrew
Jackson
Jefferson Davis
Abner
Doubleday (invented baseball)
Leslie
Groves (lead Manhatten
Project)
John Wayne in How
the West was Won
Glenn Ford in Midway
Gene Hackman and Sean Connery in A
Bridge Too Far
Paul Newman in The
Secret War of Harry Frigg |
O-7
BG or BGN Brigadier General
RDML Rear Admiral, Lower Half
obsolete: COM Commodore |
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Andrew
Johnson
Chuck Yeager
John Wayne in Cast
a Giant Shadow
General Burkhalter in Hogan's
Heroes
Henry Fonda in The
Longest Day
Gregory Peck in Twelve
O'Clock High
Ed Harris in The
Rock
James Coburn in Maverick
Peter Lorre in Voyage
to the Bottom of the Sea (movie)
Lionel Barrymore in Mata
Hari |
O-6
COL Colonel
CAPT Captain |
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Thomas
Jefferson
Harry S.
Truman
Teddy
Roosevelt
Gregory "Pappy"
Boyington
Davy Crockett
Oliver North
Edward R. Murrow
(ROTC)
Kirk & Picard
Morgan Potter
Hogan &
Klink
Colonel Hapablap in The
Simpsons
George Peppard in The
A-Team
Steve Austin in the Six
Million Dollar Man
Wallace Binghamton in McHale's
Navy
Bruce Boxleitner in Babylon
5
Col. Hall, base commander in Sergeant
Bilko
John Wayne in The
Green Berets
Sean Connery & Scott Glenn in Hunt
for Red October
Lionel Barrymore in The
Little Colonel
Jack Nicholson in A
Few Good Men
Charlton Heston in Gray
Lady Down
Kirk Douglas in Cast
a Giant Shadow
Alec Guinness in Bridge
on the River Kwai
Frank Sinatra in Von
Ryan's Express
Richard Crenna in First
Blood, Rambo
and Rambo III
Ronny Cox in Taps
James Cagney in Mr.
Roberts
Gene Hackman in Crimson
Tide
Dustin Hoffman in Outbreak
Glenn Close in Serving
in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Otto Preminger in Stalag
17
Louis Gossett Jr. in Iron
Eagle
Jean-Claude Van Damme in Streetfighter
Anthony Hopkins in The
Bounty
Marlon Brando in Apocalypse
Now
Matthew Broderick in Glory
Stacy Keach in The
Ninth Configuration
David Carradine in Kill
Zone
Dana Andrews in The
Battle of the Bulge
Edward G. Robinson in The
Sea Wolf
Peter Ustinov in Billy
Budd
Ernie Kovacs in Wake
Me When It's Over
Andy Griffith in Rustler's
Rhapsody |
O-5
LTC Lieutenant Colonel
CDR Commander |
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Paul
Revere
Aaron
Burr
Spock, Bones, Riker & Dr. Crusher
Henry Blake
James Bond
Michael O'Hare in 1st season of Babylon
5
John Wayne in Rio
Grande
Gene Hackman in Bat*21
Tom Selleck in Magnum
PI
Sean Connery in The
Presidio
Robert Duvall in Apocalypse
Now
Al Pacino in Scent
of a Woman
Denzel Washington in Courage
Under Fire
Lorne Greene in Battlestar
Galactica
Professor Robinson in Lost
in Space
Lee Crane in Voyage
to the Bottom of the Sea
Rock Hudson in Ice
Station Zebra
Cary Grant in Operation
Petticoat
Clark Gable in Run
Silent, Run Deep
E.G. Marshall in Tora!
Tora! Tora!
Don Ameche in A
Wing and a Prayer
Anthony Quinn in Lost
Command
Spencer Tracy in Thirty
Seconds Over Tokyo
Cliff Robertson in Midway
Burl Ives in Ensign
Pulver |
O-4
MAJ Major
LCDR Lieutenant Commander |
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Lyndon
Johnson
Richard Nixon
Gerald
Ford
Audie Murphy
Scotty, Data, Geordi & Troi
Hoolihan & Winchester
Tony Nelson & Roger Healey in I
Dream of Jeannie
David James Elliott in JAG
Denzel Washington in Crimson
Tide
Kelsey Grammer in Down
Periscope
Barbara Bach in The
Spy Who Loved Me
Humphrey Bogart in The
Caine Mutiny
Demi Moore in A
Few Good Men
Jürgen Prochnow in The
English Patient
Dolf Lundgren in The
Peacekeeper
Quinton McHale in McHale's
Navy
Charlton Heston in The
Private War of Major Benson
Martin Balsam in The
Bedford Incident
Cleavon Little in The
Salamander
Tommy Lee Jones in Blue
Sky
Lee Marvin and George Kennedy in The
Dirty Dozen
Damon Wayans in Major
Payne
Slim Pickens in Dr.
Strangelove
Major West in Lost
in Space
Richard Burton in Where
Eagles Dare
Richard Widmark in The
Frogmen
Charles Bronson in The
Battle of the Bulge
Eddie Albert in Orders
to Kill
Alan Ladd in Saigon
Marlon Brando in Sayonara
James Garner in The
Americanization of Emily
Chuck Norris in Delta
Force
Major Steve Trevor in Wonder
Woman
Major Major in Catch 22 |
O-3
CPT Captain
LT Lieutenant |
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Abraham
Lincoln
Nathan
Hale (early American spy)
Jimmy
Carter
Robert Dole
Uhura, Sulu & Worf
Hawkeye & Trapper John
Han Solo
Elroy Carpenter in McHale's
Navy
Battalion leader in Platoon
Tom Cruise, Kevin Bacon & Kiefer Sutherland in A
Few Good Men
Tom Cruise & Val Kilmer in Top
Gun
Meg Ryan in Courage
Under Fire
Wilton Parmenter in F-Troop
John Wayne in Fort
Apache
Christopher Walken in Pulp
Fiction
Clint Eastwood in Where
Eagles Dare
Demi Moore in G.I.
Jane
Barbara Eden in Voyage
to the Bottom of the Sea (movie)
Gregory Peck in The
Guns of Navarone
Will Smith in Independence
Day
Danny Glover in Operation
Dumbo Drop
Gail O'Grady in She
Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
Tony Curtis in Operation
Petticoat
Patricia Neal in In
Harm's Way
Glenn Ford and Anne Francis in Don't
Go Near the Water
Burt Lancaster in Run
Silent, Run Deep
Steve McQueen in The
Great Escape
William Holden in The
Bridges at Toko-Ri
Robert Mitchum in The
Enemy Below
Fred MacMurry, Van Johnson and José Ferrer in The
Caine Mutiny
Jerry Lewis in Don't
Give Up the Ship
Angie Dickinson in Captain
Newman, M.D.
Ethel Merman in Airplane!
Martin Sheen in Apocalypse
Now
Jack Lemmon in The
Wackiest Ship in the Army
Ken Berry in The
Reluctant Heroes
Eileen Brennen in Private
Benjamin
Jamie Lee Curtis in in Operation
Petticoat (TV)
Howard Rollins in A
Soldier's Story
Robert Montgomery in Hell
Below |
O-2
1LT First Lieutenant
LTJG Lieutenant Junior Grade |
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John
F. Kennedy
George
Bush
Robert Heinlein
Father Mulcahy, most MASH nurses
Platoon leader in Platoon
Attack Force leader in Aliens
Henry Fonda in Mr.
Roberts
John Wayne in They
Were Expendable
Frankie Avalon in Voyage
to the Bottom of the Sea (movie)
Rip Torn in Pork
Chop Hill
Frederic March in The
Road to Glory
Veronica Lake in So
Proudly We Hail
Dana Delany in China
Beach |
O-1
2LT Second Lieutenant
ENS Ensign |
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Chekov
Ensign Parker in McHale's
Navy
Jack Lemmon in Mr.
Roberts
Mitzi Gaynor in South
Pacific
Robert Morse in The
Boatniks
Johnny Rico in Starship
Troopers
Rober Culp in PT 109 |
