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{{Short description|UK and Commonwealth military personnel who are not commissioned officers}}
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'''Other ranks''' ('''ORs''') in the [[Royal Marines]] (RM), the [[British Army]], and the [[Royal Air Force]] (RAF), along with the [[Navy|navies]], [[Army|armies]], and [[air force]]s of many other [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] countries and [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]], are those personnel who are not [[Officer (armed forces)|commissioned officers]], but usually include [[non-commissioned officer]]s (NCOs).<ref>{{Cite web|first1=Gavin|last1=Berman|first2=Tom|last2=Rutherford|date=17 November 2011|url=https://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/SN02183.pdf|title=Defence personnel statistics (SN/SG/02183)|website=www.Parliament.uk|publisher=[[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]]|access-date=8 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111122024012/http://www.parliament.uk/Templates/BriefingPapers/Pages/BPPdfDownload.aspx?bp-id=SN02183|archive-date=22 November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.defence.gov.au/dpe/pac/V2_Ch3_Pt1_PtB_Div5.htm|title=PACMAN Chapter 3 Part 1 Part B Division 5: Salary (Other Ranks)|website=Defence.gov.au|publisher=[[Ministry of Defence (Australia)|Ministry of Defence]], [[Australia|Commonwealth of Australia]]|access-date=8 February 2014}}{{Failed verification|date=March 2023}}</ref>  In the [[Royal Navy]] (RN), these personnel are called "[[Naval rating|ratings]]"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/Careers/Life-in-the-Royal-Navy/Life-as-a-Rating|title=Life as a Rating|website=www.RoyalNavy.MoD.uk|publisher=[[Royal Navy]]|access-date=8 February 2014}}</ref> rather than "other ranks".  "[[Non-commissioned member]]" (NCM) is the equivalent term in the [[Canadian Armed Forces]], and "[[enlisted rank]]" is used in the United States and elsewhere.

The term "other ranks" is often considered to exclude [[warrant officer]]s (WO), and occasionally in some militaries also excludes NCOs.  Formally, a [[regiment]] consists of the "officers, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men", or the "officers, warrant officers, and other ranks".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=svsDnQEACAAJ|title=Roll of Honour of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment|year=1951|oclc=44849381 }}</ref>

==British other ranks==
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===Notes===
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==See also==<!--list in order of seniority-->
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*[[Royal Navy other rank insignia]]
*[[British Army other ranks rank insignia]]
*[[RAF other ranks]]
*[[Ranks and insignia of NATO]]

==References==
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