- published: 09 May 2010
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A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given.
The term "general" is used in two ways: as the generic title for all grades of general officer; and as a specific rank. Since the late twentieth century, the rank of general is usually the highest active rank of a military not at war.
The various grades of general officer are at the top of the rank structure. Lower-ranking officers are known as field officers or field-grade officers, and below them are company-grade officers. All officers who commanded more than a single regiment came to be known as "general officers".[citation needed] The word "general" is used in its ordinary sense in English (and other languages) as relating to larger, general, military units, rather than smaller units in particular.
There are two common systems of general ranks.
Variations of one form, the old European system, were once used throughout Europe. It is used in the United Kingdom (although it did not originate there), from which it eventually spread to the Commonwealth and the United States of America. The general officer ranks are named by prefixing "general", as an adjective, with field officer ranks, although in some countries the highest general officers are titled field marshal or marshal.
Tonight
I saw your true face
Vindictive
A language of your reaction
And thank you for returning my faith in what I believed in
It nearly went in vain
While you took aim
So when you wake tomorrow with no one left to crucify
You know that you'll still feel afraid
The way you woke up this morning, today
That's right
I saw your true face
Or rather
A representative of hatred
Don't you fight your own wars?
A general saluting yourself for yesterday
While you think about your prey
I hope for your sake you work out your problem lies within
Your tortured mindset you put out
So where's your violin?