Private (rank)

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Private (Great Britain: Private; Canada: Private (Recruit); US Army: Private E-1) denotes the lowest rank of the teams in many armed forces in the English-speaking area. Its equivalent in the German Bundeswehr are the lowest ranks, e.g. B. in the army riflemen or gunners or in the air force and army aviation troops and in the navy sailors. In the German and Austrian armies of the 18th and 19th centuries, the common corresponded to the private rank.

Common translation errors

A fairly common but incorrect translation is private . For the era before 1945, however, the translation for private must always be soldier, rifleman or commoner. The equivalent of the private, however, was the Private First Class (PFC) ( US armed forces ) or the Lance Corporal ( armed forces of the United Kingdom ).

In the NATO armed forces , the translation problem is more complex. The US Army and Canadian Forces have each had two private ranks since 1968, which are between the untrained recruit (USA: Private E-1 ; Canada: Private Recruit ) and the graduate of basic military training (USA: Private E-2 ; Canada : Private Basic ) differentiate; the British Army does not know this differentiation.

The ranks Private Basic and Private E-2 for trained soldiers now come very close to the private in the German, Austrian and Swiss armed forces and have their own rank badge (simple angle or sloping bar). In the Bundeswehr the private has more rights and duties. Since the deviations in competency are not so great that they change the main characteristics of the rank, the Bundeswehr private in the NATO rank code is equated with the "private" rank as OR-2 .