List of ranks used by the United States Army

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This is a list of every rank used by the United States Army, with dates showing each rank's beginning and end.

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Ranks used to the end of the Revolutionary War are shown as ending on June 2, 1784. This is the date that the Continental Army was ordered to be demobilized; [1] actual demobilization took until June 20.

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  1. ↑ Continental Congress 1784 27:515
  2. 1 2 24 Stat. 435
  3. ↑ 32 Stat. 930, Acting Hospital Stewards became Sergeants of the Hospital Corps.
  4. ↑ Continental Congress 1775, 2:210
  5. ↑ Continental Congress 1777, 7:162
  6. 1 2 3 1 Stat. 721
  7. ↑ 2 Stat. 85 officers raised under previous acts to be discharged
  8. 1 2 2 Stat. 820
  9. 1 2 3 4 3 Stat. 615
  10. 1 2 Continental Congress 1777, 7:178 on pay table
  11. ↑ Continental Congress 1778, 11:541 not on pay table
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 1 Stat. 241
  13. ↑ 39 Stat. 166, Artificers became Mechanics.
  14. ↑ 3 Stat. 115
  15. 1 2 Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of the Continental Army. Washington, Lowdermplk & CO., 1893, Page 242.
  16. ↑ 39 Stat. 166, Principal Musicians became Assistant Band Leaders
  17. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, The Assistant Band Leader at West Point became a Master Sergeant, and all others Staff Sergeants.
  18. ↑ AEF General Order 14, July 15, 1917. Rank created under executive authority granted on May 18, 1917 40 Stat 76.
  19. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920 End of World War I ranks. Proposed legislation in 1918 to make Assistant Chauffeur a regular rank in the army did not pass
  20. ↑ 2 Stat. 816
  21. ↑ Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of the Continental Army. Washington, Lowdermplk & CO., 1893, Page 116.
  22. 1 2 LOUIS C. DUNCAN (1931). "APPENDIX B. LIST OF MEDICAL MEN WHO TOOK A PART IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION". MEDICAL MEN IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775-1783. MEDICAL FIELD SERVICE SCHOOL, CARLISLE BARRACKS, PENNSYLVANIA.
  23. ↑ 3 Stat. 128
  24. ↑ 3 Stat. 224 not included in law
  25. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 39 Stat. 166
  26. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Assistant Engineers became Technical Sergeants
  27. 1 2 Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of the Continental Army. Washington, Lowdermplk & CO., 1893, Page 259.
  28. 1 2 3 14 Stat. 332
  29. ↑ 27 Stat. 226, Assistant Medical Purveyors became Assistant Surgeons General.
  30. 1 2 3 4 40 Stat. 882
  31. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Assistant Stewards became Specialists Fifth Class
  32. ↑ 3 Stat. 615, Post Surgeons and Surgeon’s Mates became Assistant Surgeons
  33. ↑ 35 Stat 67, Assistant Surgeons became Captains or First Lieutenants
  34. 1 2 3 Stat. 426
  35. ↑ 12 Stat. 378
  36. ↑ 35 Stat. 67, Assistant Surgeons General became Colonels
  37. ↑ Not listed in General Order 36, June 19, 1920, but probably abolished by it as an enlisted rank.
  38. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Band Corporals became Corporals
  39. ↑ 1 Stat. 761, Band Leaders became Warrant Officers
  40. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Band Sergeants became Sergeants, those in the West Point Band Became Master Sergeants.
  41. 1 2 3 4 5 6 12 Stat. 279
  42. 1 2 14 Stat. 332 rank not included in law
  43. 1 2 3 12 Stat. 599
  44. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Battalion Sergeants Major became Staff Sergeants
  45. ↑ 39 Stat. 166, Battalion Quartermaster Sergeants became Battalion Supply Sergeants
  46. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Battalion Supply Sergeants Staff Sergeants
  47. ↑ 30 Stat. 363
  48. 1 2 39 Stat. 166, Battery Quartermaster Sergeants became Battery Supply Sergeants
  49. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Battery Supply Sergeants became Sergeants
  50. ↑ 1 Stat. 750
  51. ↑ 2 Stat. 482 rank not included in law
  52. ↑ 1 2 Stat. 764
  53. 1 2 3 3 Stat. 224
  54. 1 2 3 Stat. 47
  55. 1 2 3 3 Stat. 219
  56. ↑ Continental Congress 1775, 2:223
  57. ↑ Continental Congress 1775, 2:97
  58. ↑ 1 Stat. 223
  59. ↑ 3 Stat. 114
  60. ↑ 3 Stat 225
  61. ↑ 4 Stat 652
  62. ↑ 12 Stat. 737, Buglers became Trumpeters
  63. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Buglers Became Specialists Sixth Class
  64. 1 2 40 Stat. 893
  65. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Buglers First Class Became Specialists Sixth Class
  66. 1 2 3 4 5 Continental Congress 1775, 2:89
  67. ↑ Continental Congress 1775, 2:220, on Pay Table
  68. 1 2 1 Stat. 222
  69. ↑ 41 Stat. 769, Chaplains given regular line ranks
  70. 1 2 40 Stat. 244
  71. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Chauffeurs became Specialists Fifth Class
  72. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Chauffeurs First Class became Specialists Fifth Class
  73. 1 2 4 Stat. 652
  74. 1 2 12 Stat. 599, Chief Buglers became Chief Trumpeters
  75. ↑ Continental Congress 1780 18:878
  76. ↑ Continental Congress 1782 22:5
  77. 1 2 3 4 34 Stat. 862
  78. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Chief Mechanics became Specialists Fourth Class
  79. ↑ 14 Stat. 334
  80. ↑ 27 Stat. 276, Chief Medical Purveyor became an Assistant Surgeon General
  81. ↑ 1 Stat 750
  82. ↑ 2 Stat. 132, Chief Musicians became Teachers of Music
  83. ↑ 15 Stat. 318
  84. ↑ 39 Stat. 166, Chief Musicians became Band Leaders
  85. 1 2 Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of the Continental Army. Washington, Lowdermplk & CO., 1893, Page 365.
  86. ↑ Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of the Continental Army. Washington, Lowdermplk & CO., 1893, Page 102.
  87. ↑ Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of the Continental Army. Washington, Lowdermplk & CO., 1893, Page 109.
  88. ↑ Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of the Continental Army. Washington, Lowdermplk & CO., 1893, Page 129.
  89. ↑ Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of the Continental Army. Washington, Lowdermplk & CO., 1893, Page 138.
  90. ↑ 55 Stat. 651. The Mine Planter Service positions of Master and Chief Engineer were classified as Chief Warrant Officers. Chief Warrant Officers became Chief Warrant Officers 2, 3, 4 and eventually 5.
  91. 1 2 3 4 68 Stat. 157
  92. ↑ 105 Stat. 1491
  93. ↑ Continental Congress 1775, 2:188
  94. 1 2 3 4 2 Stat. 132
  95. ↑ 31 Stat. 748 Rank created in 1901, but had been a position with special insignia since 1883
  96. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920
  97. ↑ Fisher, Ernest, Guardians of the Republic, New York: Ballentine, 1994, p. 316
  98. 1 2 Continental Congress 1777, 8:434
  99. 1 2 Continental Congress 1781, 20:734
  100. 1 2 2 Stat. 697
  101. ↑ 5 Stat. 513
  102. ↑ 17 Stat. 485
  103. 1 2 30 Stat. 977 added Commissary Sergeants to regiments, Those at posts were now Post Commissary Sergeants
  104. ↑ 14 Stat, 332 rank not included in law
  105. 1 2 3 12 Stat. 280
  106. ↑ 16 Stat 315 rank not included in law. The 1874 Army Register’s table of organization states that Company Quartermaster Sergeants were eliminated by not being included in an act of March 15, 1872, but the law is dated in May.
  107. ↑ 30 Stat. 366
  108. 1 2 39 Stat. 166, Company Quartermaster Sergeants became Company Supply Sergeants
  109. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Company Supply Sergeants became Sergeants
  110. ↑ 30 Stat. 721
  111. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Cooks became Specialists Fourth Class
  112. ↑ Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of the Continental Army. Washington, Lowdermplk & CO., 1893, Page 246. Earliest appointment of a Cornet in book.
  113. ↑ 1 Stat. 750, Cornets converted to Second Lieutenants.
  114. ↑ 2 Stat 482, Dragoon troops to contain both Second Lieutenants and Cornets.
  115. ↑ 3 Stat. 224, Cornets abolished along with the Dragoon Regiments.
  116. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Continental Congress 1784, 28:48
  117. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Corporal Buglers became Corporals
  118. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Deck Hands became Specialists Fifth Class
  119. ↑ 3 Stat. 298
  120. 1 2 Continental Congress 1777 8:434
  121. 1 2 Continental Congress 1780 20:734
  122. ↑ Continental Congress 1777 7:232
  123. ↑ Continental Congress 1780 18:878 rank not included in law
  124. ↑ Continental Congress 1776 7:232 rank mentioned
  125. ↑ Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of the Continental Army. Washington, Lowdermplk & CO., 1893, Page 328. John Pierce promoted to Paymaster General.
  126. ↑ 27 Stat. 276, Assistant Medical Purveyors and Surgeons equivalent to Lieutenant Colonels became Deputy Surgeons General
  127. ↑ 35 Stat. 67, Assistant Surgeons General became Lieutenant Colonels
  128. ↑ Continental Congress 1775 2:209
  129. 1 2 2 Stat. 735
  130. ↑ 3 Stat. 297, duties given to line officers
  131. ↑ 3 Stat. 113, rank not included in law
  132. 1 2 3 4 Continental Congress 1776 5:563
  133. ↑ 14 Stat. 332, rank not included in law
  134. 1 2 3 4 30 Stat. 977
  135. ↑ 39 Stat 166, duties given to the First Sergeant of each Headquarters Company.
  136. 1 2 Continental Congress 1785 28:248
  137. ↑ Continental Congress 1787 33:603, Drummers became Musicians
  138. 1 2 3 30 Stat. 978
  139. 1 2 3 34 Stat. 862, rank divided into first and second classes
  140. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Electrician Sergeants First Class became Technical Sergeants
  141. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Electrician Sergeants Second Class became Staff Sergeants
  142. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Engineers became Master Sergeants
  143. ↑ 2 Stat. 732
  144. ↑ 12 Stat. 508, Enlisted Men of Ordnance became Sergeants, Corporals, Privates First Class and Privates Second Class.
  145. 1 2 Continental Congress 1775 2:188
  146. ↑ 1 Stat. 750, Ensigns became Second Lieutenants
  147. ↑ 2 Stat. 132, Companies were to contain both Ensigns and Second Lieutenants
  148. ↑ 3 Stat. 224, rank not included in law
  149. 1 2 3 4 2 Stat. 133
  150. 1 2 3 4 5 2 Stat. 481
  151. ↑ 36 Stat. 245
  152. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, rank not in general order, but must have been abolished by it.
  153. ↑ 7 Stat. 652
  154. ↑ 36 Stat. 245, Farrier and Blacksmith became the separate ranks of Farrier and Horseshoer
  155. ↑ 39 Stat, 625
  156. ↑ 44 Stat. 328, Field Clerks became Warrant Officers
  157. ↑ Continental Congress 1787 33:603, Fifers became Musicians
  158. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Firemen became Specialists First Class
  159. ↑ 1 Stat. 749 “First” used to differentiate from Second Lieutenants
  160. ↑ 5 Stat. 258 is the first mention of First Sergeants in law. The position, if not the rank, may have existed since the 1770s. They were mentioned in the 1832 Uniform Regulations.
  161. ↑ 56 Stat. 649
  162. ↑ This is the date the Air Force Separated from the Army. Fight Officers were shown on army pay tables until 1949.
  163. ↑ 3 Stat. 297, Garrison Surgeons became Post Surgeons
  164. ↑ 1 Stat. 222, law allowed for Surgeon’s Mates. Some were at Garrisons.
  165. ↑ 1 Stat. 430, 1791 law repealed.
  166. ↑ 3 Stat. 297, Garrison Surgeon’s Mates became Post Surgeons
  167. ↑ 40 Stat. 410, allowed only for the commander in France (John Pershing) and the Army Chief of Staff (Tasker Bliss then later Payton March)
  168. ↑ Official Army Register,January 1, 1921, p. 6, General Payton March reverted to Major General
  169. ↑ 45 Stat. 1255
  170. ↑ Continental Congress 1775 2:96
  171. ↑ Continental Congress 1783 25:837
  172. ↑ 41 Stat. 283, Rank had been first created for George Washington in 1799 (1 Stat. 752) but he never took the office.
  173. ↑ Official Army Register,January 1, 1924, p. 772, Pershing retired on this date. He remained a General of the Armies on the Retired List until his death on July 15, 1948. George Washington was posthumously promoted to General of the Armies on July 4, 1976 (90 Stat. 2078)
  174. ↑ 38 Stat. 802
  175. ↑ The rank of General of the Army ended with the death of Omar Bradley.
  176. ↑ 14 Stat. 223
  177. ↑ General William Tecumseh Sherman Retired. A law passed on July 15, 1870 (16 Stat. 316) had abolished the rank once it became vacant.
  178. ↑ 25 Stat. 165, law combined the ranks of General of the Army and Lieutenant General to allow Phillip Sheridan to be promoted.
  179. ↑ The death of General Phillip Sheridan was on this date.
  180. 1 2 24 Stat. 167
  181. ↑ 28 Stat. 233, General Service Clerks became civilian employees.
  182. ↑ 28 Stat. 233, General Service Messengers became civilian employees.
  183. ↑ 3 Stat. 47, artillerymen in the Continental Army were also sometimes referred to as Gunners
  184. ↑ 36 Stat, 245, the Blacksmith half of Farriers and Blacksmiths became Horseshoers.
  185. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Horseshoers became Specialists Fourth Class
  186. ↑ 12 Stat. 404
  187. ↑ 13 Stat. 46, Hospital Chaplains became Chaplains.
  188. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Hospital Sergeants became Technical Sergeants.
  189. ↑ 11 Stat. 51, Hospital Stewards existed, probably as civilian employees, long before this, but this law codified them as enlisted men.
  190. ↑ 32 Stat. 930, Hospital Stewards became Sergeants First Class of the Hospital Corps.
  191. 1 2 2 Stat. 85
  192. ↑ 3 Stat. 426, Hospital Surgeons move to other medical positions.
  193. ↑ 3 Stat. 426 Hospital Surgeon’s Mates became Post Surgeons.
  194. ↑ Continental Congress 1775 2:220 on pay table
  195. ↑ Continental Congress 1776 5:645 The Judge Advocate was made a Lieutenant Colonel.
  196. ↑ Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of the Continental Army. Washington, Lowdermplk & CO., 1893, Page 258. New Judge Advocate appointed, no evidence he held other rank.
  197. ↑ Continental Congress 1780 22:314, the Judge Advocate resigned, his replacements appear to have been taken from regiments.
  198. 1 2 2 Stat. 671
  199. 1 2 3 Stat. 615, rank not included in law.
  200. ↑ General Regulations for the Army, or, Military Institutes (Articles 18 and 20)
  201. ↑ War Department Circular No. 303
  202. ↑ Continental Congress 1775 2:89
  203. ↑ 1 Stat. 750, Lieutenants became First Lieutenants
  204. ↑ Continental Congress 2:188
  205. ↑ Continental Congress 28:48
  206. 1 2 3 1 Stat. 558
  207. ↑ 1 Stat. 749
  208. ↑ 13 Stat. 11
  209. ↑ Death of Phillip Sheridan. He held both the ranks of General of the Army and Lieutenant General since June 1, 1888 (25 Stat. 165)
  210. ↑ 28 Stat. 938
  211. ↑ Retirement of John Schofield
  212. ↑ 31 Stat. 655
  213. ↑ Retirement of Arthur MacArthur, rank ceased to exist under a law of March 2, 1907 (34 Stat.1160)
  214. ↑ 34 Stat. 410, Law allowed for two Corps commanders during World War I
  215. ↑ Corps Commanders reverted to Major General
  216. ↑ 53 Stat. 1214
  217. 1 2 3 Continental Congress 1775 2:220, on pay table
  218. ↑ Continental Congress 1775 2:97
  219. ↑ 1 Stat. 507
  220. ↑ 2 Stat. 761
  221. ↑ 32 Stat. 930
  222. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Master Engineers Junior Grade became Technical Sergeants
  223. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Master Engineers Senior Grade became Master Sergeants
  224. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Half of the Master Gunners became Master Sergeants and the other half Staff Sergeants.
  225. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Master Hospital Sergeants became Master Sergeants
  226. ↑ 2 Stat. 764
  227. ↑ 3 Stat, 224 rank not included in law
  228. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Regimental Sergeants Major, Sergeants Major Senior Grade, Quartermaster Sergeants Senior Grade, Master Hospital Sergeants, Master Engineers Senior Grade, Master Electricians, Master Signal Electricians, Engineers, Regimental Supply Sergeants, a quarter of Ordnance Sergeants, half of the Master Gunners, Band Sergeants in the West Point Band and The Assistant Leader of the West Point Band became Master Sergeants.
  229. ↑ 33 Stat. 261
  230. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Master Signal Electricians became Master Sergeants.
  231. 1 2 3 4 Army Regulation 615-15, July 2, 1954
  232. 1 2 DA Message 344303, June 1958, Master Specialists became Specialists 7.
  233. ↑ 12 Stat. 287
  234. ↑ There is no law eliminating Master Wagoners. The disappear from the tables of organization in 1879.
  235. ↑ "History of Army CW5 Insignia". WARRANT OFFICER HISTORICAL FOUNDATION. (this is the date of the approval of the insignia)
  236. ↑ 105 Stat. 1491, Master Warrant Officers became Chief Warrant Officers 5.
  237. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Mechanics became Specialists Fifth Class.
  238. ↑ 12 Stat. 288
  239. ↑ 14 Stat. 332, rank not included in law.
  240. 1 2 12 Stat. 379
  241. ↑ FRANCIS B. HEITMAN.,HISTORICAL REGISTER AND DICTIONARY OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY, Vol. 1, Washington: GPO, 1903, p. 648, Discharge date of the last Medical Inspector.
  242. ↑ FRANCIS B. HEITMAN.,HISTORICAL REGISTER AND DICTIONARY OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY, Vol. 1, Washington: GPO, 1903, p. 713, Discharge date of the Medical Inspector General Madison Mills.
  243. ↑ 1 Stat 721
  244. ↑ 2 Stat 86 Provisional Army Discharged
  245. ↑ 12 Stat. 403
  246. ↑ 19 Stat. 61, last Medical Storekeeper left the army on February 25, 1894.
  247. ↑ 39 Stat, 166
  248. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Mess Sergeants became Sergeants.
  249. ↑ 2 Stat. 696, Military Agents became Deputy Quartermasters.
  250. ↑ 2 Stat3 816. Storekeepers in the Ordnance Department became Ordnance Storekeepers on July 28, 1866 (14 Stat. 332).
  251. ↑ 18 Stat. 339. The last Military Storekeeper left the army on September 22, 1896.
  252. ↑ 30 Stat. 571
  253. ↑ 30 Stat. 977, The Military Storekeeper(Charles Loefller) retired on January 12, 1901.
  254. ↑ 39 Stat. 626
  255. ↑ Official Army Register, January 1, 1927, p. 829, the Military Storekeeper (Charles Daly) died on this date.
  256. ↑ Continental Congress 1787 33:603, Fifers and Drummers became Musicians
  257. 1 2 3 4 39 Stat. 166, Musicians divided into Classes.
  258. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Musicians First Class became Specialists Third Class.
  259. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Musicians Second Class became Specialists Fourth Class.
  260. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Musicians Third Class at West Point became Specialists Fourth Class and the rest Specialists Fifth Class.
  261. 1 2 General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Oilers became Specialists Second Class
  262. ↑ 4 Stat. 504
  263. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, a quarter of the Ordnance Sergeants became Master Sergeants and the rest Technical Sergeants.
  264. ↑ U.s. Army Register, January 1, 1904 P. 406, Retirement date of Last Ordnance Storekeeper Valentine McNally.
  265. 1 2 3 Stat. 297
  266. ↑ 9 Stat. 184, Paymasters given line ranks.
  267. ↑ Continental Congress 1775 2:94
  268. ↑ Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of the Continental Army. Washington, Lowdermplk & CO., 1893, Page 328. Death of Paymaster General John Pierce
  269. ↑ 1 Stat. 279. Title varied from Paymaster (the only one) to Paymaster of the Army, to Paymaster General.
  270. ↑ 9 Stat. 184, the Paymaster General became a Colonel.
  271. 1 2 Continental Congress 1777 7:235
  272. ↑ FRANCIS B. HEITMAN.,HISTORICAL REGISTER AND DICTIONARY OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY, Vol. 1, Washington: GPO, 1903,p. 334
  273. 1 2 3 3 Stat. 224, rank not included in law.
  274. ↑ 2 Stat. 85. Law allowed unneeded officers to be discharged. The Physician General left the army on June 15, 1800.
  275. ↑ Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of the Continental Army. Washington, Lowdermplk & CO., 1893, Page 104. Resignation of last Physician General of Hospitals William Brown
  276. ↑ 31 Stat. 748
  277. ↑ 37 Stat. 592, Post Commissary Sergeants became Quartermaster Sergeants, Quartermaster Corps.
  278. ↑ 23 Stat. 109
  279. ↑ 37 Stat. 592, Post Quartermaster Sergeants became Quartermaster Sergeants, Quartermaster Corps.
  280. ↑ 3 Stat. 615, Post Surgeons became Assistant Surgeons.
  281. ↑ 2 Stat. 482, Teachers of Music became Principal Musicians.
  282. ↑ 39 Stat. 166, Principal Musicians became Assistant Band Leaders.
  283. 1 2 9 Stat. 185
  284. ↑ 9 Stat. 304, law creating Principal Teamsters was repealed.
  285. 1 2 9 Stat. 12
  286. ↑ 32 Stat. 930, Privates of the Hospital Corps became Privates First Class.
  287. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Privates Second Class are not listed in the order but it probably made them into Privates.
  288. ↑ 1 Stat. 222. Both “Quartermaster General” and just “Quartermaster” were used.
  289. ↑ 2 Stat. 132, the Quartermaster General was replaced with Military Agents.
  290. 1 2 3 2 Stat. 482
  291. ↑ 30 Stat. 977 Quartermaster Sergeants became Regimental Quartermaster Sergeants.
  292. ↑ 39 Stat. 166, Master Electricians in the Quartermaster Corps became Quartermaster Sergeants Senior Grade
  293. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Quartermaster Sergeants Senior Grade became Master Sergeants.
  294. ↑ 37 Stat. 592
  295. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Quartermaster Sergeants, Quartermaster Corps became Technical Sergeants.
  296. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Radio Sergeants became Staff Sergeants.
  297. 1 2 12 Stat. 269
  298. 1 2 16 Stat. 318
  299. ↑ 30 Stat. 977, Quartermaster Sergeants became Regimental Quartermaster Sergeants.
  300. 1 2 39 Stat. 166, Regimental Quartermaster Sergeants became Regimental Supply Sergeants.
  301. ↑ 30 Stat. 977, Sergeants Major became Regimental Sergeants Major.
  302. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Regimental Sergeants Major became Master Sergeants.
  303. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Regimental Supply Sergeants became Master Sergeants.
  304. 1 2 Continental Congress 1777 7:178, on pay table
  305. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Saddlers became Specialists Fifth Class.
  306. ↑ 1 Stat. 759
  307. ↑ 1 Stat. 120
  308. ↑ 3 Stat. 671
  309. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Sergeant Buglers became Staff Sergeants.
  310. ↑ 26 Stat. 654
  311. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Sergeants First Class became Staff Sergeants.
  312. 1 2 Department of the Army Circular No. 202, July 7, 1948, Technical Sergeants became Sergeants First Class.
  313. ↑ 1 Stat. 483
  314. ↑ 30 Stat. 977 Sergeants Major became Regimental Sergeants Major.
  315. 1 2 3 DA Message 344303, June 1958
  316. ↑ Mages, Robert M., Sergeants Major of the Army. Center for Military History, 1995, p. 80 states that Commander Sergeant Major and Staff Sergeant Major were Created at the same time. Sergeants Major not the senior enlisted advisor of a unit became Staff Sergeants Major, those who were Command Sergeants Major.
  317. 1 2 "Enlisted Titles of Grade from 1958-2011" (PDF). ncohistory.com. (Staff Sergeants Major became Sergeants Major.)
  318. ↑ Army Digest, August 1966, Page 2.
  319. ↑ 31 Stat. 748, Battalion Sergeants Major of Artillery became Sergeants Major Junior Grade.
  320. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Sergeants Major Junior Grade became Staff Sergeants.
  321. ↑ 31 Stat. 748, Regimental Sergeants Major of Artillery became Sergeants Major Senior Grade.
  322. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Sergeants Major Senior Grade became Master Sergeants.
  323. ↑ The Story of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps, Center of Military History, 2007, P. 300. Specialists 4 became Specialists
  324. 1 2 DA Message 344303, June 1958, Specialists Third Class became Specialists 4.
  325. 1 2 3 The Story of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps, Center of Military History, 2007, P. 300.
  326. 1 2 DA Message 344303, June 1958, Specialists Second Class became Specialists 5.
  327. 1 2 DA Message 344303, June 1958, Specialists First Class became Specialists 6.
  328. ↑ Army Times, March 13, 1978
  329. 1 2 "Enlisted Titles of Grade from 1958-2011" (PDF). ncohistory.com.
  330. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920,Chauffeurs, Chauffeurs First Class, Musicians First Class not at West Point, Saddlers, Assistant Stewards, Mechanics and Wagoners became Specialists Fifth Class.
  331. 1 2 3 Army Circular No. 204, June 24, 1942.
  332. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Musicians First Class in the West Point Band became Specialists First Class.
  333. ↑ Army Circular No. 204, June 24, 1942. Specialists First Class became Technicians Grade 4.
  334. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Chief Mechanics, Horseshoers, Cooks, Musicians Second Class not in the West Point band, Musicians Third Class in the West Point became Specialists Fourth Class.
  335. ↑ Army Circular No. 204, June 24, 1942. Specialists Fourth Class became Technicians Grade 5.
  336. ↑ Army Circular No. 204, June 24, 1942. Specialists Second Class became Technicians Grade 4.
  337. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Buglers and Buglers First Class became Specialists Sixth Class.
  338. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Stewards, Firemen, Musicians First Class that were not in the West Point Band and Musicians Second Class that were in the West Point Band became Specialists Third Class.
  339. ↑ Army Circular No. 204, June 24, 1942. Specialists Third Class became Technicians Grade 4 or 5.
  340. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Squadron Sergeants Major became Staff Sergeants.
  341. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Stable Sergeants became Sergeants.
  342. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Squadron Sergeants Major, Battalion Sergeants Major, Battalion Supply Sergeants, Sergeants Major Junior Grade, Sergeants First Class, half of Master Gunners, Assistant Band Leaders not at West Point, Sergeant Buglers, Electrician Sergeants, Radio Sergeants, Color Sergeants and Sergeants in the West Point Band became Staff Sergeants.
  343. ↑ Department of the Army Circular No. 202, July 7, 1948, Staff Sergeants became Sergeants.
  344. ↑ DA Message 344303, June 1958.
  345. ↑ Mages, Robert M., Sergeants Major of the Army. Center for Military History, 1995, p. 80 states that Commander Sergeant Major and Staff Sergeant Major were Created at the same time. Sergeants Major not the senior enlisted advisor of a unit became Staff Sergeants Major.
  346. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Stewards became Specialists Third Class
  347. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Supply Sergeants became Sergeants.
  348. ↑ 2 Stat. 132, Surgeons became Garrison Surgeons
  349. ↑ 35 Stat. 67, Surgeons became Majors.
  350. ↑ 35 Stat. 67, The Surgeon General became a Brigadier General.
  351. ↑ 2 Stat. 132, Surgeon’s Mates became Garrison Surgeon’s Mates.
  352. ↑ 3 Stat. 615, Surgeon’s Mates became Assistant Surgeons.
  353. 1 2 2 Stat. 206
  354. 1 2 2 Stat. 720, rank not included in law.
  355. ↑ 2 Stat. 482, Teachers of Music became Principal Musicians
  356. ↑ 9 Stat. 304, law creating Teamsters was repealed.
  357. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Hospital Sergeants, Master Engineers Junior Grade, three quarters of Ordnance Sergeants, Electrician Sergeants First Class, Assistant Engineers and Quartermaster Sergeant and Electrician Sergeants from the Artillery School and West Point became Technical Sergeants.
  358. ↑ Army Circular No. 204, June 24, 1942. Specialists First, Second and some Third Class became Technicians Grade 4.
  359. ↑ Department of the Army Circular No. 202, July 7, 1948, Technicians Grade 3 became Sergeants.
  360. ↑ Army Circular No. 204, June 24, 1942. some Specialists Third Class and Specialists Fourth Class became Technicians Grade 5.
  361. ↑ Department of the Army Circular No. 202, July 7, 1948, Technicians Grade 4 became Corporals.
  362. ↑ 2 Stat. 791
  363. ↑ 4 Stat. 533
  364. ↑ 30 Stat. 365
  365. ↑ 39 Stat. 166, Troop Quartermaster Sergeants became Supply Sergeants.
  366. ↑ Continental Congress 1775 2:90
  367. ↑ 1 Stat. 750, Trumpeters became Musicians.
  368. 1 2 12 Stat. 787
  369. ↑ 39 Stat. 166, Trumpeters became Buglers.
  370. ↑ 14 Stat. 335. The law added a Veterinary Surgeon to each regiment but they were civilians. The Veterinary Surgeons authorized by the 1863 law continued on the Table’s of Organization until 1871 or 1872. It is possible that appointments of Veterinary Surgeons after 1866 were as civilians and the non civilian Veterinary Surgeons disappeared by attrition.
  371. ↑ 30 Stat 364
  372. ↑ 39 Stat. 166, Veterinarian became First or Second Lieutenants.
  373. ↑ 12 Stat 269
  374. ↑ General Order 36, June 19, 1920, Wagoners became Specialists Fifth Class.
  375. ↑ 40 Stat. 881. Masters, Chief Engineers, First Mates, Second Mates and Assistant Engineers in the Mine Planter Service were classified as Warrant Officers.
  376. ↑ 55 Stat. 651. Warrant Officers were splint into Chief Warrant Officers and Warrant Officers Junior Grade. Mine planter Masters and Chief Engineers became Chief Warrant Officers and the others Warrant Officers Junior Grade.
  377. 1 2 68 Stat. 157, Warrant Officers Junior Grade became Warrant Officers 1.
  378. ↑ 55 Stat. 651. Warrant Officers were splint into Chief Warrant Officers and Warrant Officers Junior Grade. Mine planter First Mates, Second Mates, Assistant Engineers and the new position of Second Assistant Engineer were Classified as Warrant Officers Junior Grade.
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