Talk:Royal guards/@comment-10390252-20140127164307

I suspect that the Royal Guards have a rank structure somewhat like middle age/renaissance armies. It isn't widely known, but the ranks of Major, Lt Colonel and Colonel (as well as almost all the staff ranks) only started appearing in around the Napoleonic War period because rich young officers wanted to be able to buy seniority over other, slightly less rich young officers.

Equestria, I think, probably follows this rank structure:

Enlisted

E1 - Private

E2 - Corporal

E3 - Sargent

Officers

2nd Lieutenant (O1)

1st Lieutenant (O2)

Captain (O3)

Staff

Brigadier (S1) - Most senior captain in any given battlefield formation

General (S2) - Chiefs of staff appointed by the Princesses directly