History and Simple Ranks Explication

     Hello everyone, welcome to the first post about the U.S. Army. Obviously if we go to  talk about military careers and their missions or activities, we need know some information of the history and the organization of this branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. The U.S. army was created in 1775 and their primary responsibility has been the fighting of land battles and military occupation. Exist a lot of good units, but some of the most recognize units by civilians are: Rangers Regiment, Special Forces (Green Beret), Delta Forces,  1st Cavalry Division, 82nd Division and 101st Division. These and others units participated in some important wars, for example: War of 1812, American Civil War, Spanish- American War, World War 1, World War 2, Korean War and more recently Gulf War, War in Iraq and War in Afghanistan.  Also we need include other missions where the U.S. Army is used as peacekeeping for example: mission in Somalia in 1993, missions in the former Yugoslavia and the soldiers that remain in Kosovo. Now the U.S. Army has bases with troops around the world ready for deployment and does an excellent job no matter what country or weather.

     The organization of the U.S. Army is very complicated, but let me try explaining something very simple that the people commonly confuse. The first thing that people confuse is the situation with the ranks. Exist 3 types of ranks, the Officers, Warrant Officers, and the enlisted. The symbols of the officer’s ranks are:  bar, leaves, eagle and star for example. Their purpose in the Army is creates the plan that their elements need for do a mission, keep the troop motivated and ready. The Warrant officers ranks are symbols too, in this case is a silver bar with black squares inside that told you what level is this soldier. The Warrant Officers are experts in their jobs, for example if we have a pilot Warrant Officer the only work that he will does is as a pilot. The other type of the 3 different ranks is the enlisted. People offend enlisted soldiers when say that are people without studies and other things, but let me explain something. It’s true that the enlisted soldiers don’t need a bachelor degree, but they have something that everyone need in the Army. Officers and Warrant Officers need the experiences of these guys. So when somebody will try to offend an enlisted for their studies, explain that they have the studies of life. These ranks are represented by stripes and here we can find the “sergeants”. The work of these guys in the Army is doing the plan that the officer create for the mission, obviously using their experiences.  General and President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower said “The sergeant is the Army”.


     The U.S. Army for me is a historical organization that does its job every day, not only in wars or missions around the world, also inside the United States. Sometime we could forget that, but they need our respect and support, because they will here when we need of them.  Now that you know something about the history and the ranks organization in the U.S. Army maybe you can show more respect, support and also you can understand in the future other posts when we talk about some particular war or some particular information about who make the order or who execute the mission and the sacrifice of our soldiers.