Rank Categories
In the U.S. Navy, pay grades for officers are:
- W-2 to W-5 for chief warrant officers. Chief warrant officers (CWO2–CWO5) are commissioned officers; a warrant officer (W-1) is not a commissioned officer. Warrant officers are "appointed" to their grade and have a probationary period assigned. The Army and Marine Corps currently appoint warrant officers to this pay grade.
- O-1 to O-10 for unrestricted line, restricted line, or staff corps officers:
- O-1 through O-4 are junior officers: ensign, lieutenant (junior grade), lieutenant, and lieutenant commander
- O-5 and O-6 are senior officers: commander and captain
- O-7 through O-10 are flag officers: rear admiral (lower half) (one star), rear admiral (two star), vice admiral (three star), and admiral (four star).
- O-11 is the additional flag officer rank of fleet admiral (five star). It is a wartime rank only and since 1945, there have been no additional fleet admirals appointed in the U.S. Navy. However, the rank of fleet admiral still remains listed on official rank insignia precedence charts and, if needed, this rank could be reestablished at the discretion of Congress and the President. All five-star officers are, technically, unable to retire from active duty. The last living fleet admiral in the U.S. Navy, Chester W. Nimitz, died in 1966.
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