Lieutenant colonel general Lieutenant colonel general Lieutenant colonel general or sub-colonel general (Serbo-Croat: "генерал-потпуковник" or "general-potpukovnik") is a general officer rank in a number of Balkan armed forces. Its literal meaning is "sub-colonel general". The rank of lieutenant colonel general represents a rationalisation of the situation in some armies of a lieutenant general outranking a major general, when a major outranks a lieutenant. In the Serbian Army, the rank of "sub-colonel" ("potpukovnik" / "потпуковник") is used rather than "lieutenant colonel" ("poručnik pukovnik" / "поручник пуковникin"). In the Serbian Army and Air Force ("генерал-потпуковник" or "general-potpukovnik"), it is the rank immediately below colonel-general. The
Brigadier general Japan, use major general as the equivalent of brigadier general. Some of these armies then use the rank of colonel general to make four general-officer ranks. Mexico uses the ranks of both "General brigadier" and "General de brigada". This gallery displays Air Force brigadier general insignia if they are different from the Army brigadier general insignia. (They usually are.)<br> Note that in many Commonwealth countries, the equivalent air force rank is Air Commodore (and in the Netherlands, it is simply Commodore). The rank of brigadier general (with some local variations) is used in the Argentine Air Force. Unlike other armed