RAF Other Ranks
The term used in the Royal Air Force to refer to all ranks below commissioned officer level is Other Ranks (ORs). It includes Warrant Officers, non-commissioned officers (NCOs), and airmen.
Read more about RAF Other Ranks: Ranks, Origins, Changes in 1939—Warrant Officers, Changes in 1946—Aircrew, Changes in 1950—Technicians and Aircrew, Changes in 1951—Junior Ranks, Changes in 1964—Technicians, Changes in 2005—phasing Out of Junior Technician, Introduction of Lance Corporal
Famous quotes containing the word ranks:
“A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)