USMC / BRM5
Ranks & command
The 1st Marine Division command structure. Warrant Officers follow a separate technical leadership track.
HQ Command
Full divisional authority and strategic direction.
- Major General
- Commanding General — overall authority
- Brigadier General
- Assistant Commanding General — second-in-command and staff control
Officer Chain
Mission planning and unit command.
- Colonel
- Regimental / division-level command
- Lieutenant Colonel
- Battalion Commander
- Major
- Operations Officer / executive roles
- Captain
- Company Commander
- First Lieutenant
- Platoon Commander
- Second Lieutenant
- Junior Officer / assistant leadership
Senior NCOs
Senior enlisted leadership, officer advice and standards.
- Sergeant Major
- Senior enlisted advisor to command
- Master Gunnery Sergeant
- Senior technical combat advisor
- First Sergeant
- Company senior enlisted leader — discipline and welfare
- Master Sergeant
- Operational advisor
- Gunnery Sergeant
- Platoon-level leadership
- Staff Sergeant
- Squad leadership and execution
Warrant Officers
Separate technical and advisory leadership track. Not a step between enlisted ranks.
- CWO5
- Senior technical authority
- CWO4
- Strategic-level advisor
- CWO3
- Tactical specialist
- CWO2
- Systems and training leader
- WO1
- Entry-level technical officer
NCOs
Direct leadership in combat and training.
- Sergeant
- Squad Leader
- Corporal
- Fireteam Leader
Enlisted
The foundation of the force: execution and teamwork.
- Lance Corporal
- Senior junior Marine
- Private First Class
- Trained Marine
- Private
- Entry-level