Field officer

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A field officer or field grade officer is an army or marine commissioned officer senior in rank to a company officer but junior to a general officer.

Historically, a regiment or battalion's field officers made up its command element.

Today, a field officer is a major, lieutenant colonel, or a colonel. The British Army, and some others in the Commonwealth (including the Australian Army and New Zealand Army), also include the brigadier in this category: the equivalent in other armies is a general officer (the brigadier general).

In the Canadian Forces, the equivalent of field officers are senior officers (French: Officiers supérieurs); they include the army and air force ranks of Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Colonel, and the naval ranks of Lieutenant-Commander, Commander, and Captain.