Military ranks of the Colombian Army
Coat of Arms of the Colombian National 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 sovereignty 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
Further information: Officer (armed forces)
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| NATO code [n 1] | OF-10 | OF-9 | OF-8 | OF-7 | OF-6 | OF-5 | OF-4 | OF-3 | OF-2 | OF-1 | |||
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| (Spanish) | - | General | Teniente General | Mayor General | Brigadier General | Coronel | Teniente Coronel | Mayor | Capitán | Teniente | Subteniente | ||
| Abbr. | - | GR | TG | MG | BG | CR | TC | MY | CT | TE | ST | ||
| (English) | - | General | Lieutenant General | Major General | Brigadier General | Colonel | Lieutenant Colonel | Major | Captain | Lieutenant | Second Lieutenant | ||
| '"3B" Uniform sample | No equivalent |  |  |  |  |
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| Service branch | - | - | - | - | - | sample: Cavalry | sample: Infantry | sample: Engineers | sample: Communications | sample: Cavalry | sample: Artillery | ||
| Camouflage Fatigues sample | No equivalent |  |  |  |
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| Service branch | - | - | - | - | - | sample: Cavalry | sample: Infantry | sample: Engineers | sample: Artillery | sample: Communications | sample: Logistics (Armory) | ||
Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) and Soldiers
Further information: Non-commissioned officer and Soldier
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| NATO code [n 1] | OR-9 | OR-8 | OR-7 | OR-6 | OR-5 | OR-4 | OR-3 | OR-2 | OR-1 | ||||
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| (Spanish) | Sargento Mayor de Comando Conjunto | Sargento Mayor de Comando | Sargento Mayor | Sargento Primero | Sargento Vice Primero | Sargento Segundo | Cabo Primero | Cabo Segundo | Cabo Tercero | Dragoneante | Soldado Profesional | Soldado | |
| Abbr. | SMCC | SMC | SM | SP | SV | SS | CP | CS | C3 | - | - | - | |
| (English) | Joint Command Sergeant Major | Command Sergeant Major | Sergeant Major | First Sergeant | Sergeant First Class | Second Sergeant | First Corporal | Second Corporal | Third Corporal | Private First Class | Private (Professional) | Private Basic | |
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
- 1 2 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
- ↑ Congreso de la República de Colombia (28 July 2010). "Ley 1405 de 2010 Nuevos Grados Militares" (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- ↑ Ejército de Colombia (15 March 2011). "Grados y distintivos del Ejército" (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- ↑ Corte Constitucional de la República de Colombia. "Sentencia T-218/10,Orden a las Fuerzas Militares de modificar la modalidad de incorporación al servicio militar, de soldado regular a soldado bachiller, desacuartelamiento inmediato y expedición de la libreta militar" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 May 2011.
External links
- Colombian Army - Official site (Spanish)
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