Ranks and insignia of NATO

Ranks and insignia of NATO are combined military insignia used by the countries whose militaries contribute to the security of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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NATO maintains a "standard rank scale" in an attempt to match every countries military rank to corresponding ranks in other nations. There are two scales, though not all countries use all the points on the NATO scales and some have more than one rank at some points:

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• OF1 - OF10 (bottom to top) are used for officers
• OR1 - OR9 (bottom to top) are used for other ranks
 
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