Corporal
Corporal is a military rank in use by the armed forces of many countries. It is also a police rank in some police services. The rank is usually the lowest ranking non-commissioned officer. In some militaries, the rank of corporal nominally corresponds to commanding a section or squad of soldiers.
This article is about the military rank. For other uses, see Corporal (disambiguation).The word is a contraction from the medieval Italian phrase capo corporale (transl. head of a body [of soldiers]).[1] While most Indo-European languages use the contraction, West Iberian languages use cabo.[2][3]
Corporal
Ceannaire
€805.38 – €847.45[8]
1924
Private, 3 star (army)
Airman, 3 star (air corps)
CPL
Enlisted
OR-4
E-4
Private first class (Army)
Lance corporal (Marines)
Petty officer third class (Navy)
Senior airman (Air Force)
Specialist 4 (Space Force)
![Caporal (Arabic: عريف, romanized: Earif) (Algerian Land Forces)[28]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/02.AlgA-CPL.svg/50px-02.AlgA-CPL.svg.png)
![Korporaal (French: Caporal) (Belgian Land Component)[29]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Army-BEL-OR-03.svg/86px-Army-BEL-OR-03.svg.png)
![Caporal (Benin Army)[30]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Benin_Army_OR-3.svg/47px-Benin_Army_OR-3.svg.png){kind=small}
![Corporal (Botswana Ground Force)[31]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Botswana-Army-OR-4.svg/120px-Botswana-Army-OR-4.svg.png)
![Caporal (Burkina Faso Ground Forces)[32]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/02._Burkina_Faso_Army_-_CPL.svg/58px-02._Burkina_Faso_Army_-_CPL.svg.png)
![Caporal (Kirundi: Kaporari) (Burundi Army)[33]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Blank.svg/120px-Blank.svg.png){kind=small}
![Corporal (French: Caporal) (Canadian Army)[34]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Canadian_Army_OR-4.svg/47px-Canadian_Army_OR-4.svg.png){kind=small}
![Korporal (Royal Danish Army)[35]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Denmark-Army-OR-4-M11.svg/62px-Denmark-Army-OR-4-M11.svg.png)
![Kapral (Estonian Land Forces)[36]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Estonia-Army-OR-2.svg/44px-Estonia-Army-OR-2.svg.png){kind=small}
![Caporal (France Army)[6]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Army-FRA-OR-03.svg/48px-Army-FRA-OR-03.svg.png){kind=small}
![Korporal (German Army)[37]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/HD_H_15_Korporal_HFla_L.svg/50px-HD_H_15_Korporal_HFla_L.svg.png)
![Caporale (Italian Army)[38]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Rank_insignia_of_caporale_of_the_Army_of_Italy_%281973%29.svg/50px-Rank_insignia_of_caporale_of_the_Army_of_Italy_%281973%29.svg.png){kind=icon}
![Kaprālis (Latvian Land Forces)[39]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Latvia-Army-OR-3.svg/47px-Latvia-Army-OR-3.svg.png){kind=small}
![Caporal (Luxembourg Army)[40]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Luxembourg-Army-OR-3a.svg/47px-Luxembourg-Army-OR-3a.svg.png){kind=small}
![Korporaal (Royal Netherlands Army)[41]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Nl-landmacht-korporaal.svg/68px-Nl-landmacht-korporaal.svg.png)
![Korporal (Norwegian Army)[42]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Norway-Army-OR-4a.svg/60px-Norway-Army-OR-4a.svg.png)
![Kapral (Polish Land Forces)[43]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Army-POL-OR-03.svg/51px-Army-POL-OR-03.svg.png)
![Cabo (Spanish Army)[2]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Spain-Army-OR-3.svg/49px-Spain-Army-OR-3.svg.png){kind=small}
![Corporal (British Army)[44]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/British_Army_OR-4.svg/120px-British_Army_OR-4.svg.png)
![Corporal (United States Army)[45]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Army-USA-OR-04a_%28Army_greens%29.svg/103px-Army-USA-OR-04a_%28Army_greens%29.svg.png)
