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Nicaragua military ranks

Nicaragua military ranks

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The Military ranks of Nicaragua are the military insignia used by the Nicaraguan Armed Forces.

Current ranks

Commissioned officer ranks

The rank insignia of commissioned officers.

More information Rank group, General / flag officers ...

Other ranks

The rank insignia of non-commissioned officers and enlisted personnel.

More information Rank group, Senior NCOs ...

Historic ranks

The Nicaraguan National Guard rank chart was directly inspired by the US Army,[2] with chevrons pointed upwards for NCOs, horizontal linked brass bars for company officers and vertically placed gilded or silvered stars for field officers. The sequence however was slightly different, with Sergeants' ranks being limited to two only; Captains were identified by three bars instead of two as per in the US Armed Services, whilst Majors had a five-point gilded star in lieu of a leaf. National Guard rank insignia from Subteniente to Coronel resembled a US antecedent—but that of the Confederate States Army. There were also some differences in colour and nomenclature according to the branches of service: Ground Forces' NCOs had yellow on dark-green chevrons, the Air Force personnel wore white on royal blue ground forces' rank insignia whilst the Navy's Seamen and Petty Officers' ranks were identical to the other branches of the Guardia, but Line Officers had US Navy-style rank insignia on removable navy blue shoulder boards instead.

Guardia ranks (Ground Forces and National Police)

More information Rank group, General / flag officers ...
More information Rank group, Senior NCOs ...

Air Force ranks

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  • SoldadoSeaman (no insignia)
  • Soldado de primeraAble seaman (one pointed chevron)
  • CaboSeaman 1st class (two pointed chevrons)
  • Sargento SegundoPetty officer, 2nd class (three pointed chevrons)
  • Sargento PrimeroChief petty officer (three pointed chevrons above one arc)
  • AlférezEnsign (one five-pointed star above one narrow bar)
  • Teniente de CorbetaLieutenant junior grade (one five-pointed star above one bar)
  • Teniente de FragataSenior lieutenant (one five-pointed star above one narrow and one wider bars)
  • Teniente de NavíoLieutenant (one five-pointed star above two bars)
  • Capitán de CorbetaLieutenant commander (one five-pointed star above one narrow between two wider bars)
  • Capitán de FragataCommander (one five-pointed star above three bars)
  • Capitán de NavíoCaptain (one five-pointed star above four bars)
  • Contra AlmiranteCommodore (one five-pointed star above one very wide bar)

References

  1. "Insignias de Grados Militares". ejercito.mil.ni (in Spanish). Nicaraguan Armed Forces. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  2. Caballero Jurado & Thomas, Central American Wars 1959–89 (1990), p. 44.
  • Tartter, Jean R. (1994). "National Security". In Merrill, Tim (ed.). Nicaragua: a country study. Area Handbook (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. p. 210. LCCN 94021664. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
  • "Nicaragua". uniforminsignia.org. The International Encyclopedia of Uniform Insignia. Retrieved 21 October 2021.

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