What is "oberbootsmann"

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bgcolor="#efefef" colspan=3 align="center"|shoulder board / cuff title / mounting loop

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Rank insignia

German NCO rank |-----

Introduction

1955 |-----

Rank group

Non-commissioned officers |-----

Navy

Oberbootsmann |-----

Army / Air Force

Oberfeldwebel |-----

NATOequivalent

OR-6 |-----

Army/Navy

• Sergeant First Class
• Chief Petty Officer

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Air Force

Senior Master Sergeant |-----

Oberbootsmann (OBtsm or in lists OB) designates in the German Navy of the Bundeswehr a military person or member of the armed forces. It belongs to the particular rank group Senior NCOs with port epée.

According to the salary class it is equivalent to the Oberfeldwebel of Heer or Luftwaffe. It is grouped as OR6 in NATO, equivalent to First Sergeant, Master Sergeant, or Senior Chief Petty Officer in the US Armed forces, and to Warrant Officer Class 2 in the British Army and Royal Navy.

In navy context NCOs of this rank were formally addressed as Herr Oberbootsmann also informally / short '' Oberbootsmann''.

The sequence of ranks (top-down approach) in that particular group is as follows:
Unteroffiziere mit Portepee

• OR-9: Oberstabsbootsmann / Oberstabsfeldwebel
• OR-8: Stabsbootsmann / Stabsfeldwebel
• OR-7: Hauptbootsmann and Oberfähnrich zur See/ and Hauptfeldwebel and Oberfähnrich
• OR-6a: Oberbootsmann/ Oberfeldwebel
• OR-6b: Bootsmann and Fähnrich zur See/ Feldwebel and Fähnrich

Remark:

The abbreviation "OR" stands for "Other Ranks / fr: sous-officiers et militaires du rang / ru:другие ранги, кроме офицероф"!

junior Rank
Bootsmann

Oberbootsmann

senior Rank
Hauptbootsmann

Oberfähnrich zur See

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