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Template documentation This is a template for showing a table of the United States Air Force Officer rank insignia. The table can be expanded on pages allowing for more information to be associated with the ranks.
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The current Air Force officer rank names and insignia were taken from the Army upon the establishment of the Air Force as a separate service in 1947. The insignia have been essentially unchanged since then, except for a brief period during the 1990s, when then-Air Force Chief of Staff General Merrill A. McPeak redesigned the service dress uniform.
In the United States Armed Forces, a line officer or officer of the line is a U.S. Navy or U.S. Marine Corps commissioned officer or warrant officer who exercises general command authority and is eligible for operational command positions, as opposed to officers who normally exercise command authority only within a Navy Staff Corps. [1]
In addition to OTS, the Holm Center also has oversight responsibilities for the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps pre-commissioning program on U.S. colleges and universities, the Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFJROTC) citizen development program in U.S. high schools, and the entire Civil Air Patrol, both its senior ...
By default, this template shows the standard national flag for the selected country, following by a wikilink to "Country Air Force".Both of these items can be changed by adding specific parameters to the appropriate {{country data}} template (complete set found in Category:Country data templates).