enlisted personnel
Non-officer military members
Enlisted personnel are military members who serve in the non-officer ranks—the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines who form the bulk of armed forces.
They typically enter service through enlistment rather than commissioning, and advance through a hierarchy of enlisted ranks from private or seaman to senior noncommissioned officers.
The program provides college benefits for enlisted personnel.
- corporalOf the flesh
- basic trainingInitial military instruction
- staff sergeantNon-commissioned officer rank
- privateRestricted to certain parties
- chain of commandFormal authority hierarchy
petty officer · medic · esprit de corps · grunt · veteran status · GI Bill · military discipline · military bearing · unit cohesion · drill instructor · boot camp · specialist · barracks life · duty station · chief petty officer · leadership courses · lance corporal · infantryman
- military personnelsoldiers, soldier, midshipmen, officers, troops
- Irish Militaryartillery corps, engineer corps, medical corps, officer corps, military police
- military disciplinedemerits, saluting, discipline, chain of command, drill
- naval trainingofficer training, naval training, naval academy, seamanship, cadet training
- state militiasNational Guard, state militia, Army National Guard, Air National Guard, citizen-soldiers
enlisted personnelcommissioned officers
Formally appointed military leaders
officers · officer corps · brass · field officers · admirals
enlisted personnelcivilians
Non-military population
civilian population · noncombatants · civil society · civil servants · civilian workforce
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