Brigadier (sometimes also known as brigadier general) is a military rank used by the service organizations of many races and cultures. An officer grade, brigadier is traditionally the lowest flag officer (or general officer) grade in many army, air or marine services, and is equivalent to a commodore or rear admiral lower half of a naval service. Typically, a brigadier outranks a colonel and is subordinate to a major general.
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Enlisted ranks | Commissioned ranks | Flag ranks | ||||||||||||||
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Klingon Defense Force naval & marine |
ENL (bekk) | PO/LDR (DevwI')
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ENS (lagh) | LT JG | LT (Sogh) | LT CMDR | CMDR (la') | CAPT (HoD) | CDORE (totlh) | ADM ('aj) | FADM | |||||
ENL (mang) 2C
ENL (mang) 1C LCPL |
CPL (Da') | SGT (bu')
SGT MAJ |
LT JG | LT (Sogh) | CAPT | MAJ | LT COL | COL | BRIG ('ech) | MAJ GEN | GEN (Sa') | |||||
Earth SF | CREW | PO2
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CPO
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ENS | LT | CMDR | CAPT
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CDORE | RADM / 2ADM | VADM / 3ADM | 4ADM | FADM / 5ADM
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Starfleet & SFMC | ENS JG
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LT JG | LT | LT CMDR | CDR | CDORE
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PVT | CPL | SGT
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SUBLT
2ND LT |
1ST LT | CAPT | MAJOR | LT COL | COL | BRIG | GEN | ||||||
US military (& US Navy) |
PVT | CPL | SGT
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2ND LT | 1ST LT | CAPT | MAJ | LT COL | COL | BRIG GEN | MAJ GEN | LT GEN | GEN | |||
CREW | PO | CPO
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ENS | LT JG | LT | LT CMDR | CMDR | CAPT | RADM LH | RADM UH | VADM | ADM | FADM |
Background[]
In the United States, a brigadier general wears one silver star and is therefore sometimes referred to as a "one-star general". One famous recipient of this rank is Chuck Yeager.
Although unnamed, a character strongly resembling Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart from Doctor Who appears in the John M. Ford Star Trek novel "How Much for Just the Planet?" at a rather treacherous golf course on the planet Direidi.
External links[]
- Brigadier article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Brigadier article at Star Trek Expanded Universe wiki, the wiki for fan-authored Star Trek.