Where can a person find a list of military ranks?

A list of military ranks can be found at the U.S. Department of Defense. The ranks are for those of officers and enlisted ranks of the U.S. Army, Marines, Navy, Coast Guard and Air Force.

The enlisted ranks start from the pay grade E-1, followed by E-2 and E-3 for those who are still in training and learning about the core aspects of their particular service component, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. When those in the enlisted ranks undergo a more advanced kind of training, it is named as a rate for those in the Navy. In the Air Force, it is named Air Force specialty while in the Marines and Army, it is named military occupational specialty.