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Its first flight took place in 2006 and it entered service with the United States Air Force in 2015. Its first combat operation was in the 2018 Operation House of Cards by the Israeli Air Force . The F-35 Lightning II has three main variants: the conventional takeoff and landing F-35A, the short take-off and vertical-landing F-35B, and the carrier-based F-35C.
A Captain is a Commissioned Officer in the United States Army at DoD paygrade O-3. The history of the rank of Captain derives from the Latin word "captaineus," which term meant "chief" and described a soldier in charge of a larger group of other soldiers. Mediaeval times saw the term change from the Latin word merge with the old French word ...
Captain (British Army and Royal Marines), NATO OF-2 grade; Group Captain (Royal Air Force), NATO OF-5 grade; United States. Captain (United States) Captain (United States O-3) (US Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, or Space Force) Captain (United States O-6) (US Navy, US Public Health Service, or Coast Guard) Generic. Captain (naval) Captain at sea
Captain (United States junior officer) and Captain (United States senior officer) may work. There could also be an argument for having a separate article for each service instead of grouping them all together and tying ourselves in knots trying to come up with a suitable disambiguator. -- Necrothesp 13:43, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
The United States Navy did not have any admirals until 1862, because many people felt the title too reminiscent of royalty—such as the British Royal Navy—to be used in the country's navy. Others saw the need for ranks above captain, among them John Paul Jones , who pointed out that the Navy had to have officers who "ranked" with army generals. [1]
General of the Army / Armies. While not currently in use today, special insignia were authorized by Congress for ten general officers who were promoted to the highest ranks in the United States Army: General of the Army, designed as a "five-star" rank, and General of the Armies, considered to be the equivalent of a "six-star" rank.
Pay grades are divided into three groups: [1] enlisted (E), warrant officer (W), and officer (O). Enlisted pay grades begin at E-1 and end at E-9; warrant officer pay grades originate at W-1 and terminate at W-5; and officer pay grades start at O-1 and finish at O-10. [a] Not all of the uniformed services use all of the grades; for example, the ...
