Junior officer: Difference between revisions

'''Junior officer''', '''company officer''' or '''company grade officer''', refers to the lowest operational [[Officer (armed forces)|commissioned officer]] category of ranks in a [[military]] or [[paramilitary]] organization, ranking above [[non-commissioned officers]] and below [[Field officer|senior officers]].

The term,terms '''company officer''' or '''company-grade officer''', isare used more in the Army, Air Force, or [[Marine Corps]] as the ranks of [[Captain (armed forces)|captain]], [[lieutenant]] grades and other [[Subaltern (rankmilitary)|subaltern]] ranks originated from the officers in command of a company or equivalent ([[Squadron (army)|cavalry squadron]]/[[troop]] and [[artillery battery]]).<ref>{{cite web |titlelast1=CommissionedDorosh Officers|first1=Michael A. |url=http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/ranks/officersrank.htm |worktitle=Ranks|publisher=CanadianSoldiers.com|accessdate=31Rank Januaryand 2013}}</ref><ref>{{citeResponsibility web|titlewebsite=Captain|url=http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/ranks/captain.htm: The Canadian soldier in the 20th Century |workaccess-date=Ranks|publisher=canadiansoldiers.com|accessdate=431 FebruaryJanuary 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Lieutenant |url=http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/ranks/lieutenant.htm|work=Ranks|publisher=canadiansoldiers.com|accessdate=4Self-published Februaryby 2013author}}</ref><ref>{{citeunreliable websource?|titledate=company officer|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/company+officer|work=Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary|publisher=Merriam-Webster, Inc.|accessdate=4 February 20132022}}</ref>

In many armed forces, a junior officer is specifically a [[officer (armed forces)|commissioned officer]] holding rank equivalent to a naval [[lieutenant]], an army [[Captain (land and air)|captain]] or a [[flight lieutenant]] or below.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

In the [[United States Armed Forces]], the term '''junior officer''' is used by the [[United States Navy|Navy]] and the, [[United States Coast Guard|Coast Guard]], [[United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps|Public Health Service]], and [[NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps|NOAA Corps]] for officers in the ranks of [[Ensignchief warrant officer]] (W-2 to W-4), [[ensign (rank)|ensign]] (O-1), [[lieutenant, (junior grade)]] (O-2), [[lieutenant]] (O-3), and [[lieutenant commander]] (O-34).{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

**[[Field officerLieutenant]] grades

**[[Subaltern (military)|Subaltern]]