Wookieepedia

READ MORE

Wookieepedia
Don't have an account?
Register
Register
Wookieepedia
In a galaxy far, far away....
190,478
pages
in: Pages with broken file links, Pages with missing permanent archival links, Military ranks, Law enforcement ranks

Changes: Lieutenant/Legends

< Lieutenant
Back to page
Edit
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 1: Line 1:
 
[[File:Snowtrooper Lieutenant.jpg|right|thumb|250px|An [[Galactic Empire|Imperial]] [[Snowtrooper]] Lieutenant]]
  
[[File:Snowtrooper Lieutenant.jpg|right|thumb|250px|An [[Galactic Empire|Imperial]] [[Snowtrooper]] Lieutenant]]
 
'''Lieutenant''' was a rank widely used in military, paramilitary or [[Law enforcement agency|police organizations]]<ref name="Senate Murders">{{TCW|Senate Murders}}</ref>, normally borne by low-ranking commissioned officers. It was higher than a [[Second Lieutenant]] and lower than a [[Captain]].
  
'''Lieutenant''' was a rank widely used in military, paramilitary or [[Law enforcement agency|police organizations]]<ref name="Senate Murders">{{TCW|Senate Murders}}</ref>, normally borne by low-ranking commissioned officers. It was higher than a [[Second Lieutenant]] and lower than a [[Captain]].
  +
  +
{| style="border:1px solid #8888aa; background-color:#f7f8ff; padding:5px; font-size:95%; float: right; margin: 0px 12px 12px 0px;"
  +
|align="center" rowspan="2"| '''Rank'''
  +
|align="center" colspan="2"| '''Insignia'''
  +
|-
  +
|
  +
|-
  +
|align="center"|'''Lieutenant'''
  +
|align="center"| [[File:Bltbadge.jpg|98px]] {{C|pre-Battle of Yavin}}<ref name="Episode IV">''[[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope]]''</ref><br />[[File:Ltbadge.jpg|98px]] {{C|post-Battle of Yavin}}<ref name="ImpSourcebook">''[[Imperial Sourcebook]]''</ref>
  +
|-
  +
|-
  +
|}
   
 
In space fleets, most Lieutenants were found in command of small vessels, as senior officers aboard medium-sized vessels and as junior and mid-ranking command personnel on large [[capital ship]]s.
  
In space fleets, most Lieutenants were found in command of small vessels, as senior officers aboard medium-sized vessels and as junior and mid-ranking command personnel on large [[capital ship]]s.

Revision as of 17:37, 31 July 2013

Snowtrooper Lieutenant

An Imperial Snowtrooper Lieutenant

Lieutenant was a rank widely used in military, paramilitary or police organizations[1], normally borne by low-ranking commissioned officers. It was higher than a Second Lieutenant and lower than a Captain.

Rank Insignia
Lieutenant File:Bltbadge.jpg (pre-Battle of Yavin)[2]
File:Ltbadge.jpg (post-Battle of Yavin)[3]

In space fleets, most Lieutenants were found in command of small vessels, as senior officers aboard medium-sized vessels and as junior and mid-ranking command personnel on large capital ships.

Surface forces often saw Lieutenants holding the lowest level of field commands (such as platoons in the Imperial Army), as aides to more senior officers, or as vehicle operators. Sometimes, clone lieutenants were given command of fleets and ground forces. One such person was Clone trooper lieutenant Trapper, who led a platoon of men at the Battle of Malastare.

Starfighter forces placed lieutenants as junior officers, rarely any higher in the command hierarchy than lead plane of a wing-pair. Even a flight of three or four fighters was rarely led by a lieutenant, although exceptions were made when there was a general lack of senior or experienced officers. In the months before the Battle of Yavin, Hamo Blastwell even commanded Red Squadron as a lieutenant.

Somewhat confusingly, in the starfighter forces of both the Imperial military and the New Republic, the title "lieutenant" could be used to address not only Flight Lieutenants, but also the more junior Flight officers.

The Rebel Alliance's starfighter corps pre-Battle of Hoth had the rank of Lieutenant placed between flight officer and Captain, and was identifiable via a silver patch on the left shoulder with two yellow bumps, one on the top-center and the bottom-center, respectively.[4] Post-Battle of Hoth, it was placed between Lieutenant Junior Grade (a then-recent addition) and Captain, the patch had a gold trim-border and had a red dot in the center, although like before it was placed on the left shoulder of the uniform.[5] The rank of Captain during the latter time period did, however, possess a similar rank insignia to that of lieutenant.[4]

Appearances

File:Tavus.jpg

Lieutenant Tavus during the Great Galactic War

*SWGamer-icon "The Monster" — Star Wars Gamer 2
File:BoKatanTatooine.png

Bo-Katan, female lieutenant of the Death Watch during the Clone Wars.

Sources

Notes and references

  1. ↑ TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Senate Murders"
  2. ↑ Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  3. ↑ Imperial Sourcebook
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars: X-Wing
  5. ↑ Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance

See also

External links

In other languages
Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
More Fandoms