Ranks
| Generales | Jefes | Oficiales | ||||||||||
| Insignia | ||||||||||||
| Grado | Secretario de la Defensa Nacional | General de División | General de Brigada | General Brigadier | Coronel (Infantry) | Teniente Coronel (Infantry) | Mayor(Infantry) | Capitán Primero (Infantry) | Capitán Segundo (Infantry) | Teniente (Infantry) | Subteniente (Infantry) | |
Rank badges have a band of colour indicating branch:
- Gold: Generals
- Light Brown:
- General Staff
- Presidential Guard
- Scarlet: Infantry
- Burgundy: Artillery
- Red-Brown: Quartermaster and Materiel ("Materiales de Guerra")
- Light Orange-Brown: Transportation ("Transportes")
- Green:
- "Justicia"
- Military Police
- Blue:
- Engineers
- Signals and Communications ("Transmisiones")
- Light Blue: Cavalry
- Light Gray-Blue: Cartography
- Purple:
- Army Aviation
- Parachutists
- Gray: Musicians
- Light Gray: Armor
- Very light Gray: Intelligence
- Brownish Gray: Administration and Army Intendancy ("Administracion e Intendencia")
- Yellow:
- Medical
- Veterinary
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