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Officer Cadet is a rank held by military cadets during their training to become Commissioned Officers. The term Officer Trainee is used interchangably in some services.

Officer Cadets are generally paid below the standard pay rates for junior officers but receive some of the rights and responsibilities of a junior officer during their training. Officer Cadets are nominally in the chain of command and have, in certain battles, been the surviving officer and in command of the unit.

Contents

1 Officer Cadet (UK) 1.1 Officer Cadet (RAF) 2 Officer Cadet (Canada) 3 Officer Cadet (US) 4 See also

Officer Cadet (UK)

Officer Cadets hold that rank throughout their training at British military academies and in the Officers Training Corps and University Air Squadrons and for the first year of training in University Royal Naval Units (after which, they take the rank "Midshipman"). The abbreviation for Officer Cadet is "OCdt".

Officer Cadets in the British Armed Forces are treated in most respects as commissioned officers, except that Army and RAF Officer Cadets are not saluted.

Officer Cadet (RAF)

Royal Air Force Officer Cadets wear the same insignia as a Pilot Officer, except that on shoulder boards, the thin blue-and-black braid is placed on a broad white stripe. On the Service Dress uniform, the Pilot Officer braid is worn with no white background, but square white tabs are worn on both lapels. The only other disctinctive identifier is on the flight cap, where a white flash is added. The cap badge is the same as that worn by a commissioned Officer (between the ranks of Pilot Officer and Group Captain).

Officer Cadet (Canada)

The same holds true in the Canadian Forces for cadets attending the Royal Military College or for any beginning Reserve Officer. In the Canadian Navy, Naval Cadet is used in lieu of OCdt.

Officer Cadet (US)

Officer Cadet is the rank held by any cadet during their training. The term Officer Trainee is used interchangably. Cadets in the military academies and ROTC program hold training ranks equivalent to enlisted soldiers during their first two years of training and officer-equivalent ranks during their junior and senior years. Beginning in their junior year, they are expected to render and receive salutes as officers.

Cadet officer ranks are denoted by "pips" - one to three circular insignia denoting the company-grade equivalents, one to three diamond-shaped insignia denoting the field-grade equivalents.

Naval cadets are referred to as Midshipman.

See also

• Comparative military ranks
• UK officer ranks