Editing Chuck Yeager (section)

== Dates of rank ==
{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="background:white"
! scope="col" | Insignia
! scope="col" | Rank
! scope="col" | Service and Component
! scope="col" | Date
|-
|align="center" |no insignia at the time
!scope="row" | [[Private (rank)|Private]]
| [[United States Army]]
Regular Army<br/>([[United States Army Air Corps|Army Air Corps]])
| September 12, 1941<ref name="1948_Register"/>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:US Army WWII PFC.svg|35px]]<br/>[[File:US Army WWII CPL.svg|35px]]
! scope="row" | [[Private first class]] to [[corporal]]
| United States Army
Regular Army<br/>([[United States Army Air Forces|Army Air Forces]])
| 1941 to March 9, 1943<ref name="1948_Register"/>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:US-Army-Flight Officer (1941).svg|15px]]
! scope="row" | [[Flight officer]]
| United States Army
[[Army of the United States]]<br/>(Army Air Forces)
| March 10, 1943<ref name="1948_Register"/>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:US-O1 insignia.svg|14px]]
! scope="row" | [[Second lieutenant#United States|Second lieutenant]]
| United States Army
Army of the United States<br/>(Army Air Forces)
| July 6, 1944<ref name="1948_Register"/>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:US-O2 insignia.svg|15px]]
! scope="row" | [[First lieutenant#United States|First lieutenant]]
| United States Army
Army of the United States<br/>(Army Air Forces)
| September 4, 1944<ref name="1948_Register"/>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:US-O3 insignia.svg|35px]]
! scope="row" | [[Captain (United States O-3)|Captain]]
| United States Army
Army of the United States<br/>(Army Air Forces)
| October 24, 1944<ref name="1948_Register"/>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:US-O1 insignia.svg|14px]]
! scope="row" | Second lieutenant
| United States Army
Regular Army<br/>(Army Air Forces)
| February 10, 1947<br/>(accepted February 25, 1947, rank from July 6, 1944)<ref name="1948_Register"/>
|-
|align="center" |[[File:US-O2 insignia.svg|15px]]
! scope="row" | First lieutenant
| United States Army
Regular Army<br/>(Army Air Forces)
| July 6, 1947<ref name="1948_Register"/>
|-
|align="center" |{{Dodseal|USAFO3|133}}
! scope="row" | Captain
| [[United States Air Force]] || July 6, 1951<ref name="1954_Register"/>
|-
|align="center" |{{Dodseal|USAFO4|133}}
! scope="row" | [[Major (United States)|Major]]
| United States Air Force || February 15, 1951 (temporary)<ref name="1954_Register"/><br/>July 6, 1958 (permanent)<ref name="1959_Register"/>
|-
|align="center" |{{Dodseal|USAFO5|133}}
! scope="row" | [[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|Lieutenant colonel]]
| United States Air Force || March 22, 1956 (temporary)<ref name="1958_Register"/><br/>August 1, 1964 (permanent)<ref name="1965_Register"/>
|-
|align="center" |{{Dodseal|USAFO6|133}}
! scope="row" | [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]]
| United States Air Force || March 14, 1961 (temporary)<ref name="1963_Register"/><br/>September 20, 1967 (permanent)<ref name="1969_Register"/>
|-
|align="center" |{{Dodseal|USAFO7|133}}
! scope="row" | [[Brigadier general (United States)|Brigadier general]]
| United States Air Force || June 22, 1969
|-
|}
<ref name="1948_Register">{{cite book|date=1948|title=Official Army and Air Force Register (Volume II)|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |url=https://archive.org/details/officialarmyregi48unit/page/2018/mode/2up|pages=2019}}</ref><ref name="1954_Register">{{cite book|date=1954|title=Air Force Register|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |url=https://archive.org/details/airforceregister1954wash/page/330/mode/2up|pages=330}}</ref><ref name="1958_Register">{{cite book|date=1958|title=Air Force Register|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |url=https://archive.org/details/airforceregister1958wash/page/304/mode/2up|pages=304}}</ref><ref name="1959_Register">{{cite book|date=1959|title=Air Force Register|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |url=https://archive.org/details/airforceregister1959wash/page/460/mode/2up|pages=461}}</ref><ref name="1963_Register">{{cite book|date=1963|title=Air Force Register|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |url=https://archive.org/details/airforceregister1963wash/page/578/mode/2up|pages=579}}</ref><ref name="1965_Register">{{cite book|date=1965|title=Air Force Register|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=628}}</ref><ref name="1969_Register">{{cite book|date=1969|title=Air Force Register|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=1357}}</ref>