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Officer Candidate
Officer candidate or officer aspirant (OA) is a rank in some militaries of the world that is an appointed position while a person is in training to become an Officer (armed forces), officer. More often than not, an officer candidate was a civilian who applied to join the military directly as an officer. Officer candidates are, therefore, not considered of the same status as Enlisted rank, enlisted personnel. Finland In the Finnish Defence Forces, officer candidate is a service rank, equivalent but senior to sergeant, that is given to conscripts who completed the Reserve Officer School (RUK). At the end of their conscript service, officer candidates are promoted to the rank of second lieutenant. Germany In the German Armed Forces, officer designates are enlisted personnel. Soldiers accepted for officer training are given the annotation (') for ' ("Officer Aspirant") to their rank. Then the designate progresses through the ranks of ' (OR-5), ' (OR-6) and ' (OR-7) in the German Arm ...
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Officer (armed Forces)
An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an Military, armed force or Uniformed services, uniformed service. Broadly speaking, "officer" means a commissioned officer, a non-commissioned officer (NCO), or a warrant officer. However, absent contextual qualification, the term typically refers only to a force's ''commissioned officers'', the more senior members who derive their authority from a Commission (document), commission from the head of state. Numbers The proportion of officers varies greatly. Commissioned officers typically make up between an eighth and a fifth of modern armed forces personnel. In 2013, officers were the senior 17% of the British armed forces, and the senior 13.7% of the French armed forces. In 2012, officers made up about 18% of the German armed forces, and about 17.2% of the United States armed forces. Historically armed forces have generally had much lower proportions of officers. During the First World War, fewer than ...
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Bundeswehr Logo Heer With Lettering
The (, ''Federal Defence'') are the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. The is divided into a military part (armed forces or ''Streitkräfte'') and a civil part, the military part consists of the four armed forces: German Army, German Navy, German Air Force and Cyber and Information Domain Service, which are supported by the Bundeswehr Support Area. , the had a strength of 180,215 active-duty military personnel and 80,761 civilians, placing it among the 30 largest military forces in the world, and making it the second largest in the European Union behind France. In addition, the has approximately 34,600 reserve personnel (2024). With German military expenditures at $88.5 billion (2024), the is the fourth-highest-funded military in the world, though military expenditures have until recently remained low at an average at 1.5% of national GDP, well below the non-binding NATO target of 2%. In 2024, Germany fulfilled NATO obligations of spending 2% of its ...
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MDS 31a Fähnrich Zur See Trp
MDS or M.D.S. may refer to: Organizations * Brazilian Ministry of Social Development, former name of a federal ministry in Brazil * Mennonite Disaster Service, a disaster relief volunteer group * Movement for Socialist Democracy (''Mouvement pour la Démocratie Socialiste''), a former political party in Burkina Faso * Movement of Socialist Democrats (''Mouvement des Démocrates Socialistes''), a political party in Tunisia * Social Democratic Movement (''Movimiento Demócrata Social''), a political party in Bolivia * Museum Data Service, UK non-profit organisation providing online access to museum collection data Companies * MDS America, a telecommunications company * MDS Inc., a healthcare company * Microwave Data Systems, a wireless modem company * Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation, a computer company Science and technology * Minimum detectable signal, a measure of sensitivity * Molybdenum disulfide, a compound added to some plastics to make parts more slippery * Multi-Displaceme ...
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MDS 21a Seekadett Trp
MDS or M.D.S. may refer to: Organizations * Brazilian Ministry of Social Development, former name of a federal ministry in Brazil * Mennonite Disaster Service, a disaster relief volunteer group * Movement for Socialist Democracy (''Mouvement pour la Démocratie Socialiste''), a former political party in Burkina Faso * Movement of Socialist Democrats (''Mouvement des Démocrates Socialistes''), a political party in Tunisia * Social Democratic Movement (''Movimiento Demócrata Social''), a political party in Bolivia * Museum Data Service, UK non-profit organisation providing online access to museum collection data Companies * MDS America, a telecommunications company * MDS Inc., a healthcare company * Microwave Data Systems, a wireless modem company * Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation, a computer company Science and technology * Minimum detectable signal, a measure of sensitivity * Molybdenum disulfide, a compound added to some plastics to make parts more slippery * Multi-Displa ...
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HD H 31a Fähnrich Pi
HD may refer to: Business * H-D or Harley-Davidson, a motorcycle manufacturer * The Home Depot, NYSE stock symbol: HD Chemistry * Hydrogen deuteride, a diatomic compound of hydrogen and deuterium * Mustard gas Codes * Air Do, formerly Hokkaido International Airlines, IATA designator * HD postcode area, covering Huddersfield, Brighouse and Holmfirth in England, UK * Heidelberg's vehicle registration plate code * Hunedoara County (Romania)'s ISO 3166 code Medicine * Hansen's disease or leprosy * Hirschsprung's disease, a disorder of the abdomen * Huntington's disease, a genetic disorder affecting the central nervous system ** HD (gene) or huntingtin, the IT15 gene, which codes for the huntingtin protein People * H.D. or Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), American poet and novelist Other uses * ''Helsingborgs Dagblad'', a Swedish newspaper * Henry Draper Catalogue, an astronomical catalogue often used to designate stars * Department of Highways (other) * ''H ...
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