CAPT Michael Toleno 8518123 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Wikipedia says, &quot;Officers in nearly every country of the world are segregated from the enlisted,&quot; but there&#39;s no citation to pursue this further. I&#39;m not counting paramilitary organizations, noncombatant organizations, non-governmental agencies, or non-state entities. I&#39;m referring to navies, armies, air and space forces, marine corps, coast guards, and equivalent armed forces. Thanks! 2023-10-17T16:52:32-04:00 CAPT Michael Toleno 8518123

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Wikipedia says, &quot;Officers in nearly every country of the world are segregated from the enlisted,&quot; but there&#39;s no citation to pursue this further. I&#39;m not counting paramilitary organizations, noncombatant organizations, non-governmental agencies, or non-state entities. I&#39;m referring to navies, armies, air and space forces, marine corps, coast guards, and equivalent armed forces. Thanks!

2023-10-17T16:52:32-04:00 2023-10-17T16:52:32-04:00 SP5 Peter Keane 8518266

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>What exactly are yu trying to pursue ? The &quot;nearly every&quot; ?

2023-10-17T18:58:51-04:00 2023-10-17T18:58:51-04:00 CAPT Michael Toleno 8518278

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The Wikipedia quotation is in the article titled &quot;Officer (armed forces).&quot;

2023-10-17T19:03:27-04:00 2023-10-17T19:03:27-04:00 SSG Carlos Madden 8518895

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Dang. I&#39;d like to know this too. Closest I found was a Quora question:<br /><a target="_blank" href="https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-military-services-which-do-not-have-the-enlisted-officer-distinction-Everyone-starts-at-the-bottom-and-moves-up-according-to-ability">https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-military-services-which-do-not-have-the-enlisted-officer-distinction-Everyone-starts-at-the-bottom-and-moves-up-according-to-ability</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default"> <div class="pta-link-card-picture"> <img src="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/link_data_pictures/images/000/833/243/qrc/open-uri20231018-11919-62io2"> </div> <div class="pta-link-card-content"> <p class="pta-link-card-title"> <a target="blank" href="https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-military-services-which-do-not-have-the-enlisted-officer-distinction-Everyone-starts-at-the-bottom-and-moves-up-according-to-ability">Are there any military services which do not have the enlisted/officer distinction? Everyone...</a> </p> <p class="pta-link-card-description">Answer (1 of 6): No. According to the laws of war, the definition of a military unit requires that it be led by an officer, commissioned or non-commissioned. Any and every standing army of every nation-state must draw the officer-enlisted distinction. Otherwise, it cannot be considered a militar...</p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div>

2023-10-18T10:46:25-04:00 2023-10-18T10:46:25-04:00 CW3 Kevin Storm 8520318

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>In the 1980&#39;s and early 1990&#39;s I worked at US Army Field Artillery Detachments with The German, Netherlands, and Italian Armies directly and observed a few British exercises as well. To that end all of them had a segregation between Officers, NCO&#39;s, and enlisted. With the vast majority of lower enlisted being drafted. Drafts were still in affect during that time period. So for those countries (Except the Brits, because i am not sure if they still had a draft in that time frame) that was the case.

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