Commissioned Officers

Staff Sergeant

Private - enlisted rank, no rank indication on uniform.  Other titles are given for this initial rank depending on branch.  For example; Gunner if Artillery, Driver if Corps of Transport, Sapper if Engineers, Trooper if Armoured Corps and so on.  Bombardier and Lance Bombardier ranks apply to the Artillery. 

The Warrant Officer has the address of Sargeant Major.  Warrant Officer Second Class or WO2 is Company Sargeant Major, while Warrant Officer First Class is Regimental Sargeant Major.  These ranks are shown on the officer's wrist. 

The highest rank currently, in the New Zealand Army is that of Major General, a staff officer, based at the HQ in Wellington.  The Army can be, theoretically fielded as a Brigade sized unit where all forces, including the Territorial Force (TF) elements are fielded.  This unit is commanded by a Brigadier.

NCO ranks are shown on the shoulder, while CO ranks are shown on slides which placed on the shoulders.  This is the purpose of epilates.  New rank slides for the field are of the unique New Zealand DPM (Disruptive Pattern Material) and the rank denoted by black emblems for tactical reasons.