Brigadier general brigadier-general while the air force used the rank of air commodore. Chinese rank of (Da-Xiao 大校) or "Senior Colonel" is a direct equivalent of a brigadier. It ranks above colonel (Shang-Xiao 上校) and below major general (Shao-Jiang 少将). A brigadier is commonly in command of a division (Shi 师) or a brigade (Lu 旅). Divisional commanders are seldom general officers. The rank of brigadier general is the first general officer rank in the "Fuerzas Militares", and the National Police. Denmark, a NATO member, has for many years been following NATO standards and adapting its rank system to closely relate. As
Colonel general a rank of "Da Jiang" () from 1955 to 1965. Da Jiang corresponded to the Soviet rank of colonel general. The rank system of the People's Liberation Army was abolished in 1965 and restored in 1988. The 1988 system introduced a rank of Yi Ji Shang Jiang (). No one had held such rank and it was abolished in 1994. The rank of colonel general ("generálplukovník") was created in the Czechoslovak army in 1950; it was dropped after the 1993 dissolution of the state. The Egyptian Army uses a rank that translates as "colonel general". It is equal to the