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* CGJROTC rank insignia for officers is the same as the NJROTC's, except a Coast Guard shield is placed above the horizontally-displayed rank insignia and a "JROTC" bar below it. ** Cadet captain is the rank that the leader of a NJROTC unit holds if the unit has reached the cadet enrollment requirements to be rated as a regiment.
NCO ranks typically include a varying number of grades of sergeant and corporal (air force, army and marines), or chief petty officer and petty officer (navy and coast guard). In many navies the term 'rating' is used to designate specialty, while rank denotes pay grade.
Graduation parade for Australian officer cadets of Royal Military College, Duntroon. In Australia, a cadet is an officer in training. The official rank is Officer Cadet (OCDT for members of the Australian Regular Army and OFFCDT for members of the Royal Australian Air Force), however OCDTs in the Royal Military College—Duntroon are referred to as staff cadet (Scdt) for historical reasons.
Cadet under officer is the highest rank that can be held by cadets in the Combined Cadet Force and Army Cadet Force. Unlike in the British Army, cadet under officer is a rank in the cadet force rather than an appointment. The use of the term in CCF contingents is inconsistent. [3] The ACF has the single appointment of cadet under officer (CUO). [4]
Officer cadet is a rank held by military cadets during their training to become commissioned officers.In the United Kingdom, the rank is also used by members of University Royal Naval Units, University Officer Training Corps and University Air Squadron; however, these are not trainee officers with many not choosing a career in the armed forces.
The Army Cadet Force (ACF), generally shortened to Army Cadets, is a national youth organisation sponsored by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence and the British Army. [3] Along with the Sea Cadet Corps and the Air Training Corps , the ACF make up the Community Cadet Forces .
The American Cadet Alliance (ACA), formerly the United States Army Cadet Corps (USAC) was founded under the name "Colonel Cody's Boy Scouts" by Captain James H. C. Smyth at the First Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, New York in 1909. The ACA is the oldest nationwide Cadet program in the United States.
A corps of cadets, also called cadet corps, is a type of military school (such as a JROTC high school, ROTC program, senior military college or service academy) intended to prepare cadets for a military life, with the school typically incorporating real military structure and ranks within their respective program.