Military ranks of the Colombian Army

Coat of Arms of the Colombian National Army

This is the Army section of the Military ranks of the Colombian Armed Forces.
The Colombian Army is the largest of the three service branches of the Military Forces of Colombia, tasked with defending sovereignty and law and order across the national territory. The tables below display the rank structures and rank insignias for the Colombian Army personnel.^[1][2]

Officers

	Ranks and Insignias - Colombian National Army
NATO code [n 1]	OF-10	OF-9		OF-8	OF-7	OF-6	OF-5	OF-4	OF-3	OF-2	OF-1
Colombia	No equivalent
(Spanish)	-	General		Teniente General	Mayor General	Brigadier General	Coronel	Teniente Coronel	Mayor	Capitán	Teniente	Subteniente
Abbr.	-	GR		TG	MG	BG	CR	TC	MY	CT	TE	ST
(English)	-	General		Lieutenant General	Major General	Brigadier General	Colonel	Lieutenant Colonel	Major	Captain	Lieutenant	Second Lieutenant
'"3B" Uniform sample	No equivalent
Service branch	-	-		-	-	-	sample: Cavalry	sample: Infantry	sample: Engineers	sample: Communications	sample: Cavalry	sample: Artillery
Camouflage Fatigues sample	No equivalent
Service branch	-	-		-	-	-	sample: Cavalry	sample: Infantry	sample: Engineers	sample: Artillery	sample: Communications	sample: Logistics (Armory)

Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) and Soldiers

	Ranks and Insignias - Colombian National Army
NATO code [n 1]		OR-9		OR-8	OR-7	OR-6	OR-5	OR-4	OR-3	OR-2	OR-1
Colombia													No Insignia
(Spanish)		Sargento Mayor de Comando Conjunto	Sargento Mayor de Comando	Sargento Mayor	Sargento Primero	Sargento Vice Primero	Sargento Segundo	Cabo Primero	Cabo Segundo	Cabo Tercero	Dragoneante	Soldado Profesional	Soldado
Abbr.		SMCC	SMC	SM	SP	SV	SS	CP	CS	C3	-	-	-
(English)		Joint Command Sergeant Major	Command Sergeant Major	Sergeant Major	First Sergeant	Sergeant First Class	Second Sergeant	First Corporal	Second Corporal	Third Corporal	Private First Class	Private (Professional)	Private Basic

Soldier types

• Soldier: Conscripted soldier serving for a period of 22 months mandatory service ^{[n 2]}.
• Professional soldiers: Regular soldiers that stay in the army after completing their 22 months' mandatory conscription service, making it a permanent career.
• Dragoneantes: soldiers who have gained recognition through their achievements and have special training. They have a certain degree of authority over regular soldiers.

See also

• Military ranks of the Colombian Armed Forces
• Colombian National Army

Notes

1. Colombia is not a member of NATO, so there is not an official equivalence between the Colombian military ranks and those defined by NATO. The displayed parallel is approximate and for illustration purposes only.
2. In 2010, the Constitutional Court (Spanish: Corte Constitucional), the highest constitutional court of the land, on grounds of discrimination and protection of equal rights, issued an order ^[3] to the Military Forces to stop the classification of conscripts into "regular", "peasant" and "baccalaureate" (Spanish: "regular", "campesino" y "bachiller" ), and to standardize the terms and conditions for all conscripts to 22 months.

References

1. Congreso de la República de Colombia (28 July 2010). "Ley 1405 de 2010 Nuevos Grados Militares" (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 April 2011.
2. Ejército de Colombia (15 March 2011). "Grados y distintivos del Ejército" (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 April 2011.
3. Corte Constitucional de la República de Colombia. "Sentencia T-218/10,Orden a las Fuerzas Militares de modificar la modalidad de incorporación al servicio militar, de soldado regular a soldado bachiller, desacuartelamiento inmediato y expedición de la libreta militar" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 May 2011.

External links

• Colombian Army - Official site (Spanish)