Chapter LXX: Section 3: Rank and Precedence of Officers and Noncommissioned

OFFICERS.

The following are the grades of rank of officers and noncommissioned officers:

1. Lieutenant general.
2. Major general.
3. Brigadier general.
4. Colonel.
5. Lieutenant colonel.
6. Major.
7. Captain.
8. First lieutenant.
9. Second lieutenant.
10. Aviator, Signal Corps.
11. Cadet.
12. (a) Sergeant major, regimental; sergeant major, senior
grade, Coast Artillery Corps; (b) quartermaster sergeant,
senior grade, Quartermaster Corps; master hospital sergeant,
Medical Department; master engineer, senior grade, Corps of
Engineers; master electrician, Coast Artillery Corps; master
signal electrician; band lender; (c) hospital sergeant, Medical
Department; master engineer, junior grade, Corps of Engineers;
engineer, Coast Artillery Corps.
13. Ordnance sergeant; quartermaster sergeant, Quartermaster
Corps; supply sergeant, regimental.
14. Sergeant-major, squadron and battalion; sergeant major,
junior grade, Coast Artillery Corps; supply sergeant, battalion,
Corps of Engineers.
15. (a) First sergeant; (b) sergeant, first class, Medical
Department; sergeant, first class, Quartermaster Corps; sergeant,
first class, Corps of Engineers; sergeant, first class, Signal
Corps; electrician sergeant, first class, Coast Artillery Corps;
electrician sergeant, Artillery Detachment, United States
Military Academy; assistant engineer, Coast Artillery Corps;
(c) master gunner, Coast Artillery Corps; master gunner,
Artillery Detachment, United States Military Academy; band
sergeant and assistant leader, United States Military Academy
band; assistant band leader; sergeant bugler; electrician
sergeant, second class, Coast Artillery Corps; electrician
sergeant, second class, Artillery Detachment, United States
Military Academy; radio sergeant.
16. Color sergeant.
17. Sergeant; supply sergeant, company; mess sergeant; stable
sergeant; fireman, Coast Artillery Corps.
18. Corporal.

In each grade and subgrade date of commission, appointment, or warrant determines the order of precedence. (Paragraph. 9 Army Regulations, 1913.)