| | | | | | | | --------------+-----------------+-------------+----------+--------- [A] In accordance with an Act of Congress of October 6, 1917. Brigadier Generals of the Army and Marine Corps take relative rank with Rear Admirals of the lower half of the grade of Rear Admiral. The personnel of the Army, as provided by statute law, consists of commissioned officers, appointed officers, noncommissioned officers and privates as follows, according to grade or rank: OFFICERS COMMISSIONED OFFICERS 1. General. 2. Lieutenant General. 3. Major General. 4. Brigadier General. 5. Colonel. 6. Lieutenant Colonel. 7. Major. 8. Captain. 9. First Lieutenant. 10. Second Lieutenant. APPOINTED OFFICERS 11. Aviator, Signal Corps. 12. Cadet. 13. Field Clerk, Field Clerk Quartermaster Corps. ENLISTED MEN NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES 14. (a) Sergeant major, regimental; sergeant major, senior grade, Coast Artillery Corps; (b) quartermaster sergeant, senior grade, Quartermaster Corps; master hospital sergeant, Medical Department; master engineer, senior grade, Corps of Engineers; master electrician, Coast Artillery Corps; master signal electrician; band leader; (c) hospital sergeant, Medical Department; master engineer, junior grade, Corps of Engineers; engineer, Coast Artillery Corps. 15. Ordnance sergeant; quartermaster sergeant, Quartermaster Corps; supply sergeant, regimental. 16. Sergeant major, squadron and battalion; sergeant major, junior grade, Coast Artillery Corps; supply sergeant, battalion. 17. (a) First sergeant; (b) sergeant, first class, Medical Department; sergeant, first class, Quartermaster Corps; sergeant, first class, Corps of Engineers; sergeant, first class, Signal Corps; electrician sergeant, first class, Coast Artillery Corps; electrician sergeant, Artillery Detachment, United States Military Academy; assistant engineer, Coast Artillery Corps; (c) master gunner, Coast Artillery Corps; master gunner, Artillery Detachment, United States Military Academy; band sergeant and assistant leader, United States Military Academy Band; assistant band leader; sergeant bugler; electrician sergeant, second class, Coast Artillery Corps; electrician sergeant, second class, Artillery Detachment, United States Military Academy; radio sergeant. 18. Color sergeant. 19. Sergeant; supply sergeant, company; mess sergeant; stable sergeant; fireman, Coast Artillery Corps. 20. Corporal. 21. (a) First Class Private; (b) Private.