10 U.S.C. § 7151

Commissioned officer grades

The commissioned grades in the Regular Army are:

(1)

Major general.

(2)

Brigadier general.

(3)

Colonel.

(4)

Lieutenant colonel.

(5)

Major.

(6)

Captain.

(7)

First lieutenant.

(8)

Second lieutenant.

( Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041 , 70A Stat. 181 , § 3281; renumbered § 7151, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 808(b)(3) , Aug. 13, 2018 , 132 Stat. 1838 .)