List Your Credentials - Military Edition

Technichally speaking, I have no military rank. I just come from an all military family and hang out with military personel. A President doesn't have any rank either really.

I love military folks and consider them my extended family . . . and am very dissapointed with Muslim extremists at this point. They really need to listen to us and rock n roll.
 
Naval Air and the Marines ...

Why do we need an Army and Air Force agian?

To train NASA pilots. Hey, someone has to supply the military moon colony on the dark side of the moon. Those guys get hungry like anyone else.
 
Marines: When it absolutely, positively has to be blown up overnight!
 
Here's the full table, based on the links that Bob Kalse provided (http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/insignias/enlisted.html and http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/insignias/officers.html).

It's getting rather large, so I'm not going to include it in the poster listing any more, only the counts by pay grade.

Summary of U.S. Military Ranks
Pay grade | Army | Navy | Marines | Air Force | Note
E-1|Private (PV1)|Seaman Recruit (SR)|Private|Airman Basic|
E-2|Private (PV2)|Seaman Apprentice (SA)|Private First Class (PFC)|Airman (Amn)|
E-3|Private First Class (PFC)|Seaman (SN)|Lance Corporal (LCpl)|Airman First Class (A1C)|
E-4|Specialist (SPC, SP4)|Petty Officer 3rd Class (PO3)|Corporal (Cpl)|Senior Airman (SrA)|[1]
E-4|Corporal (CPL)|N/A|N/A|N/A||-
E-5|Sergeant (SGT)|Petty Officer 2nd Class (PO2)|Sergeant (Sgt)|Staff Sergeant (SSgt)|
E-6|Staff Sergeant (SSG)|Petty Officer 1st Class (PO1)|Staff Sergeant (SSgt)|Technical Sergeant (TSgt)|
E-7|Sergeant First Class (SFC)|Chief Petty Officer (CPO)|Gunnery Sergeant (GySgt)|Master Sergeant (MSgt)|
E-7|N/A|N/A|N/A|First Sergeant||-
E-8|Master Sergeant (MSG)|Senior Chief Petty Officer (SCPO)|Master Sergeant (MSgt)|Senior Master Sergeant (SMSgt)|[2]
E-8|First Sergeant (1SG)|N/A|First Sergeant|First Sergeant||-
E-9|Sergeant Major (SGM)|Master Chief Petty Office (SCPO)|Sergeant Major (SgtMaj)|Chief Master Sergeant (CMSgt)|
E-9|Command Sergeant Major (CSM)|Command Master Chief (MCPO)|Master Gunnery Sergeant (MGySgt)|First Sergeant||-
E-9|N/A|N/A|N/A|Command Chief Master Sergeant (CCM)||-
E-9|Sergeant Major of the Army (SMA)|Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON)| Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps (SgtMajMC)|Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force (CMSAF)||-
W-1|Warrant Officer 1 (WO-1)|USN Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)|Warrant Officer 1 (WO1)|N/A|
W-2|Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2)|USN Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CWO2)|Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CWO2)|N/A|
W-3|Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CW3)|USN Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CWO3)|Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CWO3)|N/A|
W-4|Chief Warrant Officer 4 (CW4)|USN Chief Warrant Officer 4 (CWO4)|Chief Warrant Officer 4 (CWO4)|N/A|
W-5|Chief Warrant Officer 5 (CW5)|USN Chief Warrant Officer 5 (CWO5)|Chief Warrant Officer 5 (CWO5)|N/A|
O-1|Second Lieutenant (2LT)|Ensign (ENS)|Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt.)|Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt.)|[3]
O-2|First Lieutenant (1LT)|Lieutenant (junior grade) (LT(jg))|First Lieutenant (1st Lt.)|First Lieutenant (1st Lt.)|
O-3|Captain (CPT)|Lieutenant (LT)|Captain (Capt.)|Captain (Capt.)|
O-4|Major (MAJ)|Lieutenant Commander (LCDR)|Major (Maj.)|Major (Maj.)|
O-5|Lieutenant Colonel (LTC)|Commander (CDR)|Lieutenant Colonel (Lt. Col.)|Lieutenant Colonel (Lt. Col.)|
O-6|Colonel (COL)|Captain (CAPT)|Colonel (Col.)|Colonel (Col.)|
O-7|Brigadier General (BG)|Rear Admiral (lower half) (Used to be Commodore) (RADM (LH))|Brigadier General (Brig. Gen.)|Brigadier General (Brig. Gen.)|
O-8|Major General (MG)|Rear Admiral (upper half) (RADM (UH))|Major General (Maj. Gen.)|Major General (Maj. Gen.)|
O-9|Lieutenant General (LTG)|Vice Admiral (VADM)|Lieutenant General (Lt. Gen.)|Lieutenant General (Lt. Gen.)|
O-10|General (GEN)|Admiral (ADM)|General (Gen.)|General (Gen.)|
O-10|General of the Army (GA)|Fleet Admiral (FADM)|N/A| General of the Air Force|[4]|-
  1. Army: For those not in a leadership position.
  2. Army: For those not in a command position.
  3. Army, Navy: Also called Butterbar.
  4. All services: Awarded only in wartime.
 
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First of all thank everyone in all branches of the service for what you do.
Second, could someone explain some of the nicknames and slang. I know some (jarhead, high and tight, squid) but I'm not familiar with mustang, butterbars, ground pounders, airdales and bubbleheads.

Thanks, Kore.
 
Mustang - Not familiar with that one, unlesss it's slang for Cavalry that I never heard before.

Butterbars - 2nd Leiutenants. The rank is a gold bar. Looks like butter. Hence...

Groundpounders - Infantry. They march alot. By foot.

Airdale, i'm not too sure about. Must be a pilot thing.

Bubblehead - Submariner?
 
First of all thank everyone in all branches of the service for what you do.
Second, could someone explain some of the nicknames and slang. I know some (jarhead, high and tight, squid) but I'm not familiar with mustang, butterbars, ground pounders, airdales and bubbleheads.

Thanks, Kore.

Butterbar comes from the single gold bar worn by the lowest ranking officers.

A Mustang is an enlisted person that gets a college degree and reenters the service as an officer.

Ground pounders refers to military servicemen that march such as infantry.

Airdale is a Navy term for people that work in aviation, bubbleheads are submariners.
 
Room for one more?

Major, United States Air Force

1987 Grad, USAFA
active duty May 87-Feb 96
USAF Reserves Feb 96-Jun 2000
C-141B Navigator
Lead airplane, panama invasion
Desert Shield, Desert Storm
5 years Special Ops
Safety Officer
 
You may also from time to time hear the terms 'yard darts' or 'air deployed sand bag' - Airborne.
 
25 years+ of active duty, USAF 1981-2006
O-5
ICBM launch officer/instructor/commander
Pol/Mil officer
inst/asst prof/assoc prof USAFA
military advisor, US Dept of State
Dep Dir, USAF Institute for National Security Studies
TDYs of note: Pentagon (START policy) NSC White House (twice)
a few other things here and there
 
25 years+ of active duty, USAF 1981-2006
O-5
ICBM launch officer/instructor/commander
Pol/Mil officer
inst/asst prof/assoc prof USAFA
military advisor, US Dept of State
Dep Dir, USAF Institute for National Security Studies
TDYs of note: Pentagon (START policy) NSC White House (twice)
a few other things here and there


I don't know, this guy sounds a little fishy.

Can you prove any of that LtCol Dr Bidlack?

:D
 
You may also from time to time hear the terms 'yard darts' or 'air deployed sand bag' - Airborne.

USAFA grads: Zoomies
any service academy grad: ring-knocker
front line forces: bullet catchers
 
My old OS1 did 3 ground tours in Vietnam as Army Infantry before switching services to the Navy.

It was really weird when he wore full Navy dress blues with a chest full of combat infantry medals ...

ETA: He was a little "twitchy" for some strange reason ;)
 
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