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=== United States ===
Aides are junior commissioned officers who are available to support some of the needs of general officers who serve in command positions in the rank of [[brigadier general (United States)|brigadier general]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB885165119151872000 |title=Thomas E. Ricks (Jan. 19, 1998) The New Brass Get in Touch With Their 'Inner Jerks' |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=19 January 1998 |access-date=5 August 2019 |archive-date=5 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805114726/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB885165119151872000 |url-status=live }}</ref> and above, and those of [[Flag Officer#United States|Flag Officers]] in the grade of Rear Admiral (lower half) and above in the Navy and Coast Guard. These aides "perform tasks and details that, if performed by general or flag officers, would be at the expense of the officer’s primary military and official duties."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/afjobs/bl8a200.htm |title=Air Force Job Descriptions – 8A200, Enlisted Aide |work=about.com |year=2014 |access-date=21 July 2014 |archive-date=28 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728195840/http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/afjobs/bl8a200.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Their assistance, however, is restricted to those tasks which are directly related to the officer's official duties.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://juniorofficer.army.mil/wanna-be-a-generals-aide/ |title=LTC Charles D. Hood, MAJ George Gurrola. Wanna Be a General's Aide? Here's how (and what you can learn if not selected) |date=3 July 2019 |access-date=26 July 2019 |archive-date=26 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726123152/https://juniorofficer.army.mil/wanna-be-a-generals-aide/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In addition to officers being assigned as [[Aide-de-camp#United_States|aides de camp]], all the US Services, including the US Coast Guard, also use enlisted personnel in support of General Officers and Flag Officers. This program is officially known as the Enlisted Aide Program. Generally the personnel are military cooks; however, in recent years, any enlisted person could volunteer to serve in this position. They attend a joint service course for Enlisted Aides and advanced culinary course for cooks.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://quartermaster.army.mil/jccoe/Special_Programs_Directorate/Enlisted_Aide_web_documents/enlisted_aide_main.html |title=Enlisted Aide Training Course |access-date=26 July 2019 |archive-date=26 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726123152/https://quartermaster.army.mil/jccoe/Special_Programs_Directorate/Enlisted_Aide_web_documents/enlisted_aide_main.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Many are often sent on to education outside the military to become chefs and butler training. Some will also be used as stewards and stewardess on very senior officer aircraft. In addition General and Flag officers are assigned a driver. Drivers may get additional training but not always in driving, taking their service's or another service's driver course and or other government agency's driving schools. Only personnel in the Enlisted Aide Program can serve as an Enlisted Aide. Drivers, admin personnel and others on the personal staff are often but not always selected locally.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://quartermaster.army.mil/jccoe/Special_Programs_Directorate/Enlisted_Aide_web_documents/Senior%20Leader%20Aide%20Handbook%202009.pdf |title=(2009) Officer/ Enlisted Aide Handbook |access-date=26 July 2019 |archive-date=29 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729182314/http://www.quartermaster.army.mil/jccoe/Special_Programs_Directorate/Enlisted_Aide_web_documents/Senior%20Leader%20Aide%20Handbook%202009.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

Ordinarily, enlisted service members would be prohibited from performing services as an aide. "No officer may use an enlisted member as a servant for duties that contribute only to the officer's personal benefit and that have no reasonable connection with the officer's official responsibilities,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/131509p.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110322205812/http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/131509p.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 March 2011 |title=DOD Instruction 1315.09: Utilization of Enlisted Personnel on Personal Staffs of General and Flag Officers |date=2 October 2007 |publisher=U.S. Department of Defense |access-date=21 July 2014}}</ref> according to the Department of Defense instruction 1315.09 for Enlisted Aides.

In the [[United States Army]] the term "striker" or "dog robber" (a slang term implying that the soldier ate table scraps otherwise given to the officer's pet dog<ref>{{cite book |last1=McChristian |first1=Douglas |title=Regular Army O! |date=2017 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |location=Norman, OK |isbn=9780806156958 |pages=144–145 |edition=First}}</ref>) was unofficially used, although that could also be applied to a junior officer who acted as a [[gofer]] to somebody with high rank. The actor [[James Garner]] played such a role in the film ''[[The Americanization of Emily]]'' (1964).