Officer is the name for soldiers in officer rank. They have the responsibility for guidance, training and the use 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 the crews. The officers are divided again into grade categories.

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 the German Federal Armed Forces takes 15 months at navy, Air Force and army, before the officer candidates go to the university. In this time basic training and officer school are completed depending upon armed service. The military training as the officer is final after 36 months - possibly by a study interrupted -.

During the training the officer candidates lead the rank additive OAU and/or ROA or the special candidate ranks

1. Kanonier/protects infantryman /Flieger/sailor etc. (OAU)
2. Private first class (OAU)
3. Upper private first class (OAU)
4. Fahnenjunker/sea-cadet (after one year) (like NCO)
5. Wo1 wo1 to sea (like sergeants)
6. Cw2 cw2 to sea (like main sergeants)

Officer candidates (OAU) of the army and the Air Force carry a silver-colored braid, which gives to recognize them as officer candidates beside the rank insignia. OAU of the navy carry in place of the braid the golden five-pointed (officer) star on the rank loop. Starting from the rank cw2 is silver paspeliert that written undertakings of the service uniform (i.e. it is set for the edge of the written undertaking a silver cord along).

Since 1973 a study at one of the two universities of the German Federal Armed Forces is in Hamburg (Helmut Schmidt university) and Munich a component of the training as the officer for troop officers. This is not compellingly necessary however in all service subranges (officer without study). Thus Helmut Schmidt the occupation of officer in Germany became in particular academic by working the Secretary of Defense at that time. Meanwhile study over 90% of the officers and officer candidates of a class at one of the two universities.

While the training as the officer also Fremdsprachenkenntnisse must be attained and proven by a SLP. 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 (OffzMilFD/"„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 go through usually also civilian-vocationally recognized training at a technical school of the 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.

In US armed forces there is a completely similar career, i.e. those the 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:

German Democratic Republic

In the GDR the training of the officers of the NVA and the Kasernierten units of the Ministry of the inside took place at officer universities in a three-year and starting from 1984 in a four years old study. It trained up to the utility position company commander and a briefing into the engagements guidance as a battalion commander. In each academic year a practical course, beginning as a group leader, was accomplished. They were appointed after the diploma examination the second lieutenant and usually used as platoon leaders. Reserve officer candidates were selected at the end of the basic military service from the best ones, trained in several courses at the officer university and appointed after an examination as the officer with rank Unterleutnant. 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 and/or for comparable utility positions took place.

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 can as Milizoffizier normally each year approx. 4 weeks service carry out. The training as the officer takes 53-57 weeks since 2004 (army XXI), dependent on function and training start. The tidy entrance turns out as follows:

Partitioning

The group of the officers is as follows continued to partition:

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