officer corps
Commissioned leadership body
The officer corps is the body of commissioned officers in a military organization, considered as a group.
It refers to the collective leadership class that commands enlisted personnel: The officer corps maintained its traditions even as the army modernized.
The term often appears in discussions of military culture, professionalism, or institutional character: purging the officer corps of dissidents.
- colonelSenior military officer
- regimentColonel-led military unit
- chain of commandFormal authority hierarchy
- battalionMid-sized military unit
- honor codeConduct standards for students
military academy · command hierarchy · war college · West Point · general staff · senior leadership · cadre · accountability · commander · brass · division · chief of staff · captain · rank insignia · discipline · admirals · brigade · duty
- armyinfantry, cavalry, soldiers, artillery, officers
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, officers, navy
- US Navynavy, fleet, sailor, admiral, submarine
- Canadian MilitaryCanadian Armed Forces, Canadian Army, DND, military branches, service branches
- Irish Militarymilitary police, military college, cadet school
- military reformreorganization, modernization, restructuring, command structure, personnel cuts
officer corpsenlisted ranks
Non-officer military members
enlisted personnel · enlisted soldiers · rank and file · enlisted men · privates
officer corpscivilian population
civilians · civil service · citizenry · noncombatants · civil society