Editing General officer (section)

== Other variations ==
Other nomenclatures for general officers include the titles and ranks:
* [[Adjutant general]]
* [[Commandant-General|Commandant-general]]
* [[Inspector general]]
* [[General-in-chief]]
* [[General of the Air Force]] (USAF only)
* [[General of the Armies|General of the Armies of the United States]] (of America), a title created for General [[John J. Pershing]], and subsequently granted posthumously to [[George Washington]] and [[Ulysses S. Grant]]
* {{lang|de|Generaladmiral}} ("[[general admiral]]") (German Navy)
* Air general and aviation general
* Wing general and group general
* {{lang|sr|General-potpukovnik}} ({{translation|[[Lieutenant colonel general]]}}, a Serb/Slovenian/Macedonian rank immediately inferior to colonel general, and roughly equivalent to Commonwealth/US major general)
* Director general (a common administrative term sometimes used as an appointment in military services)
* Director general of national defence (most senior rank in the Mexican Armed Forces)
* Controller general (general officer rank in the [[French National Police]])
* Prefect general (the most senior rank of the [[Argentine Naval Prefecture]])
* [[Master-General of the Ordnance]] (very senior British military position)
* Police General (most senior rank in some national police)
* Commissioner (highest rank of the [[Bureau of Immigration (Philippines)|Bureau of Immigration]])

In addition to militarily educated generals, there are also generals in medicine and engineering. The rank of the most senior chaplain, (chaplain general), is also usually considered to be a general officer rank.