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
General of the army of Ukraine General of the army of Ukraine General of Army of Ukraine () is a general officer and is the highest possible rank in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. General of army of Ukraine ranks immediately above a colonel general and has no equivalent naval rank. The rank is also given to general of interior service or civil defense of Ukraine. The first person to be awarded the rank was Andriy Vasylyshyn on August 19, 1993. On November 13, 1918, the Minister of Defense Oleksander Hrekov awarded to the soldier congress delegate in Directorate Symon Petlyura the rank of Supreme Otaman.