Captains in the Marine Corps are responsible for individual companies and act as company commander for Marines. Captains generally are promoted from lieutenants.
They are in charge of the tactical and everyday operations of their company and often are assisted by junior commissioned and non-commissioned officers. Majors in the U. Marine Corps typically are recruited from the rank of captain.
They are considered to be a field grade. Lieutenant colonels are the second field officer grade in the U. They command from , Marines at a given time and are assisted by one major, junior commissioned officers and one command sergeant major as an enlisted adviser. It typically takes years to reach the rank of lieutenant colonel. It typically takes years to reach this rank, and it is considered to be the final step before reaching the general officer ranks.
The lowest of the general officer ranks, Brigadier generals in the Marine Corps are one-star general officers. They preside over 10, to 15, Marines and are in charge of tactical planning and coordination of operations.
Brigadier generals must retire five years after achieving the rank or once 30 years of cumulative service has been reached, whichever comes first.
The only exception to this rule is to receive a promotion. A two-star general, major generals are promoted via a strict process of multiple nominations and reviews. Major generals must retire after five years in the rank or after 35 years of service unless they are promoted. Considered a temporary rank, lieutenant generals retire once their active tour of duty or service comes to an end. They must retire after 38 years in the service or a month after turning Lieutenant generals can extend their status only through an act of Congress.
Generals in the Marine Corps are the highest-ranking officers in the branch. The Marine Corps can have a maximum of 60 general officers, and only three may be four-star generals. Generals are nominated by the president and are confirmed by the Senate.
They must retire after 40 years of service or after they turn In addition to a monthly basic pay salary, a Marine Corps General may be eligible for multiple types of allowances and bonus pay including food allowance, housing allowance, clothing allowance, hostile fire pay, and more. To learn more about the Marine Corps' rank structure, see our complete list of Marine Corps ranks.
The Government civilian-employee equivalent of a General is paid under the General Schedule payscale. For more details, see this Marine Corps rank to GS grade conversion table. To see a list of military medals and decorations that can be earned by servicemembers in the Marine Corps and other branches of the military, see our list of military decorations and medals. Civilian Payscales.
Military Discounts. Decorations In Order. Decorations By Class. Decorations By Branch. Indeed, at the year mark, Henderson is still under the average. Still, while a single anecdote can be dismissed, the overall data is worrisome. Obviously, America has a long history of racial discrimination and Black servicemembers were only relatively recently admitted to the officer corps as anything like equal members. Michelle Howard became the first Black woman to pin on four-star rank in And Charles Q.
Brown, Jr. It is conceivable that the explanation is something other than racial bias. For the highest ranks—three- and four-star officers—the Marine Corps overwhelmingly selects infantry officers and, to a far lesser extent, aviators.
Yet even this explanation is problematic. Black officers are underrepresented in those specialties. While this is typically explained as self-selection—at least some Black officers face family and community pressure to learn skills that directly translate to civilian employment—it may well be that there is subtle pressure within the Marine Corps that reinforces this.
To be sure, it is only recently that the Corps has had four-star officers in any abundance. The person holding that billet—and there have been only 20 commandants since—was for decades the only four-star general in the Corps. And, as shocking as it may seem today, no Marine held a unified combatant command billet until George Christ took the helm of Central Command in November So, not only has the opportunity for Marines, regardless of color, to make four-star rank been extremely limited but it has been biased toward infantry officers.
Still, given what we know about structural racism and unconscious bias, the fact that so few Black officers make it to the top of the Marine Corps should alarm senior leadership and spur deeper scrutiny. Effective today, the Marine Corps has eliminated the official photograph from the personnel file that goes before promotion boards.
Still, while it may help make selections of lower-ranking officers more color-blind, and perhaps give the service more Black colonels to choose from down the line, it is unlikely to make much difference on brigadier general boards themselves: the Corps is too small and every officer on the board is likely to know every colonel up for consideration.
It is challenging to make an objective evaluation of the situation from the outside. Even the above-cited RAND report, which is the source of most of the data in this essay and which was commissioned by various Defense Department offices, had to rely only on Defense Manpower Data Center data because they were denied access to service data. It would behoove the Marine Corps to make more detailed information available to scholars for examination.
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