Editing General officer (section)

==Air force and naval equivalents==
Some countries (such as the United States) use the general officer ranks for both the [[army]] and the [[air force]], as well as their [[marine corps]]; other states only use the general officer ranks for the army, while in the air force they use [[air officer]]s as the equivalent of general officers.  They use the air force rank of [[air chief marshal]] as the equivalent of the specific army rank of general.  This latter group includes the British [[Royal Air Force]] and many current and former Commonwealth air forces—e.g. [[Royal Australian Air Force]], [[Indian Air Force]], [[Royal New Zealand Air Force]], [[Nigerian Air Force]], [[Pakistan Air Force]], etc.

In most [[navy|navies]], [[flag officer]]s are the equivalent of general officers, and the naval rank of [[admiral]] is equivalent to the specific army rank of general.  A noteworthy historical exception was the [[Oliver Cromwell|Cromwellian]] naval rank "[[general at sea]]".  In recent years in the American service there is a tendency to use ''flag officer'' and ''flag rank'' to refer to generals and admirals of the services collectively.