Brigadier general (United States) Brigadier general (United States) In the United States Armed Forces, brigadier general (BG, BGen, or Brig Gen) is a one-star general officer with the pay grade of O-7 in the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Air Force. Brigadier general ranks above a colonel and below major general. The rank of brigadier general is equivalent to the rank of rear admiral (lower half) in the other uniformed services (the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard, as both Armed Forces and Uniformed Services; and the Public Health Service and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, as Uniformed Services). The NATO equivalent
Colonel general tábornok" (general of cavalry), and "táborszernagy" (general of artillery) in the early 1940s. The rank title "vezérezredes" is still in use for the highest ranking (four-star) general officers of the "Magyar Honvédség" (Hungarian Defence Forces) and foreign four-star general officers' rank titles are usually translated as "vezérezredes" in Hungarian including Commonwealth air forces' Air Chief Marshals. The equivalent rank for Colonel general in Iraq is called "Ferik Awwal", in Arabic "فريق أول", which is considered the highest rank in Iraqi Army nowadays. The North Korean rank of "sangjang" translates as "colonel general". "Sangjang" is senior to that of "jungjang" (usually