Rank System

The Utovian Forces employ a system of three personnel categories. Those are enlisted personnel, Non-Commissioned Officers and Officers.

Officers
Ranging from the Platoon Commander all the way up to the Marshal, Officers are spread through the entirety of the Utovian forces.

Officer Candidates are picked from promising individuals during Whitehelm training, and are then trained exclusively as officers, contrary to other citizens of the Utov System.

During their training, Officers receive basic instruction and competence in all forms of combat, but do specialize in a certain field, for example armored operations or mechanized infantry operations. As the Officers progresses, they may command a more varied force, such as a armored company along with a mechanized infantry company, requiring them to master several areas of combat.

An Officer´s career usually begin upon their graduation from the Officer´s Academy, around 20 years of age, when they receive their commission as an Ensign. The highest achievable rank for an Utovian Officer is that of Lord Marshal, who´s only superior is the Governing Council

Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs)
There are very few instances of a successful military operation being carried out without competent Non-Commissioned Officers.

Fulfilling roles ranging from advisers to specialists, NCOs distinguish themselves as being the only ones beside Officers to have no other occupation but a military one. However, NCOs have walked the long walk from an enlisted soldier, and by pure personal competence, advanced through the ranks, and have as such a much more natural connection the enlisted than the officers can ever dream of having.

Having faced down the innumerable terrors the Galaxy throws at the Astra Militarum, there are no NCOs who aren't grizzled veterans of many battles.

Enlisted
Enlisted personnel are the rank-and-file of the Utovian forces, and encompass both soldiers and squad leaders and certain specialists, such as heavy weapon operators and Vox operators.