Military ranks of the Colombian Army
This is the Army section of the Military ranks of the Colombian Armed Forces.
The Colombian Army is the largest of the three service branches of the Military Forces of Colombia, tasked with defending sovereignity and law and order across the national territory. The tables below display the rank structures and rank insignias for the Colombian Army personnel. [1][2]
Officers
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Ranks and Insignias - Colombian National Army |
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OF-10 |
OF-9 |
OF-8 |
OF-7 |
OF-6 |
OF-5 |
OF-4 |
OF-3 |
OF-2 |
OF-1 |
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No equivalent |
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General |
Teniente General |
Mayor General |
Brigadier General |
Coronel |
Teniente Coronel |
Mayor |
Capitán |
Teniente |
Subteniente |
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GR |
TG |
MG |
BG |
CR |
TC |
MY |
CT |
TE |
ST |
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General |
Lieutenant General |
Major General |
Brigadier General |
Colonel |
Lieutenant Colonel |
Major |
Captain |
Lieutenant |
Second Lieutenant |
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No equivalent |
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sample: Cavalry |
sample: Infantry |
sample: Engineers |
sample: Communications |
sample: Cavalry |
sample: Artillery |
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| Camouflage Fatigues sample |
No equivalent |
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sample: Cavalry |
sample: Infantry |
sample: Engineers |
sample: Artillery |
sample: Communications |
sample: Logistics (Armory) |
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Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) and Soldiers
Soldier types
- Soldier: Conscripted soldier serving for a period of 22 months mandatory service [n 2].
- Professional soldiers: Regular soldiers that stay in the army after completing their 22 months' mandatory conscription service, making it a permanent career.
- Dragoneantes: soldiers who have gained recognition through their achievements and have special training. They have a certain degree of authority over regular soldiers.
See Also
Notes
- ^ a b Colombia is not a member of NATO, so there is not an official equivalence between the Colombian military ranks and those defined by NATO. The displayed parallel is approximate and for illustration purposes only.
- ^ In 2010, the Constitutional Court (Spanish: Corte Constitucional), the highest constitutional court of the land, on grounds of discrimination and protection of equal rights, issued an order [3] to the Military Forces to stop the classification of conscripts into "regular", "peasant" and "baccalaureate" (Spanish: "regular", "campesino" y "bachiller" ), and to standardize the terms and conditions for all conscripts to 22 months.
References
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