First sergeant

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USMC first sergeant insignia patch.

First sergeant is a military rank, a traditional infantry or army enlisted grade held by a noncommissioned officer. In comparison to naval rate systems, this rank is equivalent to senior chief petty officer.

First sergeant is, in title, the senior noncommissioned officer of a designated group of people with many other sergeants (possibly of the same grade) reporting to him/her. First sergeants are senior to all sergeants except for sergeant major (equivalent to MCPO), who is the first sergeant of first sergeants.

This was used by the United States in more than one branch of their armed forces, represented as a uniform insignia by a diamond-shaped "lozenge" insignia within the three sergeant chevrons -- although the number of "rocker" insignia opposing may vary depending on the first sergeant's grade.

A US Marine Corps first sergeant was assigned to aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65), one of the troops involved in the hunt for intruding time traveler Pavel Chekov in 1986. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

The USMC 1st Sgt. was played by Joseph Naradzay, an actual Marine.

Captain James T. Kirk , on Triskelion, refers to a drill thrall as a "top sergeant," which is a colloquialism used to refer to first sergeants. (TOS "The Gamesters of Triskelion")

External links

• first sergeant at Wikipedia

This chart shows only general equivalencies based on the ranks used by many governments on Earth, as well as the rest of the galaxy.