E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 E8 E9

PVT 1 PVT 2 Private First Class Specialist/Corporal Sergeant Staff Sergeant Sergeant First Class Master Sergeant or 1st Sergeant Sergeant Major/Command Sergeant Major/ Sergeant Major of the Army

O1 - 2nd LT O2 - 1st LT O3 - Captain O4 - Major O5 - Lt Colonel O6 - Colonel O7 - Brigadier General O8 - Major General O9 - LT General O10 - General If you have a degree, you get automatic promotion to E4, or if you want to be an officer, and have a degree, you apply to Officer Candidate School and graduate from there to get your commission. Or if you're in college, go through ROTC to g et your commission.