Specialist or Corporal. Both are E-4.
Recruit
Corporal, a two-striper, but a corporal is an NCO like a sergeant, and a private is not. You "skipped" a rank! Private First Class is directly above a private
Private First Class
Private first class in the Army Guard, and Airman first class in the Air Guard.
Private First Class - PFC
When addressed by their rank alone, they are addressed as "Private."
Private First Class
An E-4 (formerly a corporal). One rank above PFC (Private First Class-E-3) and one rank below E-5 (buck Sgt.).
There are many possible meanings for the initials, PFC, depending on the context in which they are used.In the US Army, PFC means "Private First Class". PFC is the third lowest enlisted rank in the US Army, above two forms of the rank of Private and below Corporal.In the US Marine Corps, the rank of PFC is the second lowest rank, above that of Private and below that of Lance Corporal.An Army PFC has rank equivalent to a Marine Lance Corporal.Among a large number of possibilities, PFC can also mean:preforntal cortexPortsmouth football clubplaque-forming cellsprospectve fault currentperfluorinated carbonspreliminary flight certification
The rank is simply Private (E2), referred to informally sometimes as "second class". There are three grades of Private in the Army - Private (E1), which wears no rank insignia, Private (E2), which wears one chevron, and Private First Class (E3), which wears one chevron and one rocker.
He was a Private first class, until he tested positive for marijuana then which he was reduced in rank and forced out of the military
Neither. "Buck Private" was a slang term for the rank of Private.Once a new soldier was promoted and given 1 stripe, his rank was Private First Class. So, they used this term to distinguish between a Private with no stripes and a PFC.
A major is a military leader that is the head of sergeants. The United States Army rank of private, private first class, lieutenant, and sergeant are all under the class of major.