Senior captain is a rank which is used in some countries' armed forces , navies , merchant marines , civil aviation and in the airline industry.
19-699: First Captain may refer to: Senior Captain or First Captain , a rank of various armies Captain of the Fleet or First Captain , chief-of-staff to an admiral in charge of a fleet in the Royal Navy First Captain , the title given to the senior ranking cadet, the Brigade Commander, of the United States Military Academy or Virginia Military Institute, which
38-604: A regiment or battalion 's field officers made up its command element. In the Canadian Armed Forces , the term "senior officer" ( French : officier supérieur ) is used in all three services. It includes the army and air force ranks of major , lieutenant-colonel , and colonel , and the naval ranks of lieutenant-commander , commander , and captain . In the French Armed Forces , senior officers are called officiers supérieurs . They include
57-452: Is a rank between a regular captain and a major . The rank is often only found in armies and air forces . A similar position to that of navy senior captain is the rank of senior colonel . The rank of da wei ( 大尉 ) was used by the People's Liberation Army between 1955 and 1965, and was often translated as senior captain. However, the ranks and insignia derive from the practice of
76-417: Is organized as a brigade, see United States Military Academy#Rank and organization See also [ edit ] Captain (armed forces) Captain (disambiguation) Second Captain (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title First Captain . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
95-590: Is used for the ranks of lieutenant commander , commander , captain and commodore in the Royal Navy , and squadron leader , wing commander and group captain in the Royal Air Force . An RAF air commodore , however, is considered to be an air officer . A number of other armed forces in the Commonwealth , including Australia and New Zealand, also follow this pattern. This officer group in
114-673: The German Navy are traditionally known as Stabsoffiziere (English: staff officers ). Shtabofitser ( Russian : Штаб-офицер ), derived from the German stabsoffizier , was the designation of the following officers of the Russian Imperial Army and Navy until 1917. The British Army and Royal Marines use the terms "officers of field rank" or "field officers" to refer to the ranks of major , lieutenant colonel , colonel and brigadier . The term "senior officer"
133-402: The ranks of lieutenant commander / major / squadron leader , commander / lieutenant colonel / wing commander and naval captain / colonel / group captain , or their equivalents. In some countries, it also includes brigadiers and commodores . Sometimes, particularly in the army, this grade is referred to as field-grade officers , field officers or officers of field rank . Historically,
152-765: The Soviet Army, which had, like the Red Army before it and the Russian Army today, four company-grade officer ranks: one captain rank and three lieutenant ranks. The literal translations of those four ranks in Chinese are junior(-grade) officer, mid(-grade) officer, upper(-grade) officer, and senior(-grade) officer. Since the PLA today uses only three ranks of company grade officer, it has become conventional to translate shang wei ( 上尉 ) which originally corresponded to
171-678: The Soviet rank of senior lieutenant, as captain, and hence da wei , which corresponded to the Soviet rank of captain, as senior captain. The corresponding fourth junior office rank of the Vietnamese Army, đại úy , is usually translated as captain. In the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police , between the ranks of turan (captain) and Jagran (major) is the rank of jag turan . In
190-536: The army and air force ranks of commandant , lieutenant-colonel and colonel , and the naval ranks of capitaine de corvette , capitaine de frégate and capitaine de vaisseau . In the German Bundeswehr , officers of the rank of Major , Oberstleutnant and Oberst in the Heer (army) and Luftwaffe (air force), and Korvettenkapitän , Fregattenkapitän and Kapitän zur See in
209-733: The case of the Afghan National Police, the rank of jag turan is most commonly translated as "staff captain". The rank of senior captain is rare in Western militaries, but can be found in the German military, where the rank of Stabshauptmann ( Stabskapitänleutnant in the Navy) was created in 1993 for officers of the Militärfachlicher Dienst (former NCOs in specialist positions) who could not be promoted to field grade . The Belgian Armed Forces use
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247-404: The position of "senior captain" is a contractual employment position, corresponding to the maximum achievable level for the "captains" of both fixed-wing and rotary-wing civil aviation aircraft, and dependent on particular seniority requirements. It is followed in descending order by the "first captain". In the airline industry, "senior captains" may perform a coordination role in the organization of
266-617: The rank of captain-commandant as a standard rank. Italy uses a title of primo capitano for captains (army, air force and Carabinieri) that have held the rank of captain for a long time, currently nine years or longer. In the Czechoslovak Army (and the Czechoslovak People's Army ) until 1954, the rank of štábní kapitán (staff captain) was the equivalent rank. Historically, the British Army used
285-581: The shifts and the service of the air-navigation personnel. The rank of senior captain was used by the Revenue Cutter Service to denote a rank equivalent to a U.S. Navy commander and was established in 1908 during an overhaul of service rank structures by Congress . The rank and title of captain-commandant denoted the head of the Revenue Cutter Service and was superior to the rank of senior captain. The captain-commandant
304-478: The title of First Captain to identify the company commander in each regiment who was senior to the other company commanders. Serbian Armed Forces are using rank of Senior captain ( капетан I класе ) since 1860. The rank was used by the Royal Serbian Army and Royal Yugoslav Army until 1945. The new communist government has reintroduced rank of Senior captain in 1952 for Yugoslav People's Army . It
323-526: The world, some shipmasters , with certified particular and recognized seniority in terms of true and effective ocean-going ships' command, are distinguished with the high honorific title of senior captain , officially written and reported as Senior Captain abbreviated as Sr. CAPT or as Snr Capt. ; moreover, in accordance with ancient maritime traditions, they are referred also to as commodore , abbreviated in Cdre , CDRE or CMDE . In civil aviation,
342-536: Was equivalent in rank to a navy captain. A Revenue Cutter Service captain was equivalent to a navy lieutenant commander at the time. Field grade A senior officer is an officer of a more senior grade in military or other uniformed services. In military organisations, the term may refer to any officer above junior officer rank, but usually specifically refers to the middle-ranking group of commissioned officers above junior officer ranks but below flag , general or air rank . In most countries, this includes
361-551: Was used in Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro until 2006. In December 2019 Ministry of Defence has decided to reintroduce rank of Senior captain into Serbian Armed Forces . In some countries of the world, there is the rank of senior captain. It is also known as commodore or flotilla captain , and captain-commander. A naval senior captain is typically equivalent to the army's senior colonel or brigadier general rank. In some merchant marines or merchant navies of
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