What is the difference between an E-4 E-5 or E-6 military rank?

Question

Id like to know what the difference is in responsibilities for each of the ranks mentioned. Also, how long does it take to transition from one level to the next?

Answer 1

This is for the Navy:
E-4: You're still a POS like the E-1 - E-3's, but now there's no excuses when you screw up. You no longer have to take out the trash; you make the suckers under you do it now. You still think coffee is nasty.

E-5: You (finally!!) get to do your job...woohoo!!! Very little sh*t work as 99% of any given to you is passed on to the E-4 mentioned above. You discover that coffee is an acquired taste. Or is that just the caffeine addiction??

E-6: You don't "work" so much anymore. You let the E-5's know what needs to be done and let them assign work for the most part. You do, however, have to take all the crap coming from the chiefs. And if you're an awesome LPO you'll act as a big umbrella and shield your guys from as much of it as possible.
By the time you have enough time in to make chief you will have expanded your gut to no less than 5x it's size when you first enlisted - the more pregnant you look the better. Coffee is like crack to you, and as such you could stand up in a dinghy in the middle of a hurricane and not spill a single drop.

Answer 2

All of the branches of the military do it a little bit differrent, I am un the Air Force and E-4 is the final rank in junior enlisted ranks minor supervisor responsiblities, pretty good understanding of the responsiblities above you and all of them of the ranks below you. It takes about three years to achieve this rank. E-5 is the first rank of the junior NCO's and does a lot of supervising and more paper work. obta
in 4-7 years. E-6 is usually the one who sits back and lets others do there job steps in when needed and does a lot behind the scenes and is the direct link to the Senior NCO's E-7, E-8, E-9's. Usually 8-12 years biggest pay increase.

Answer 3

in the army...a E-4(specialist & corporal ) is considered a jr nco, depending on the unit they can be a team leader which means they help the sqd leader make sure the soldiers in the team are squared away and ready to go for duty, missions and other issues...usually you can make E-4 in about 2/3 hrs

an E-5 (sergeantt) an nco can be a sqd leader or a team leader once again depending on the unit...if they are a squad leader that means they are in charge of a squad of about 8 guys and they have to make sure that these guys know their jobs, have their equipment for training, are training properly, and if they have any appts they need to let the plt leader & the plt sergeant aware of those and other issues..E-5 takes about 4/5 years and you have to go to a promotion board and make a certain amount of points to become an a sgt...

an E-6(staff sergeant) can be a platoon sergeant which would mean they are in charge of about 30 guys give or take, they need to make sure that the squad leaders are doing their jobs, they also recommended people to go to promotion boards, disciplinary actions and depending on who you ask must of the time they sit around...LOL...to make E-6 it takes about 6/7 yrs, you have to have so many years as an E-5 before you can go to the promotion board for E-6....

anything after E-6 you don't go to the promotion board anymore...it's basically an act of congress to get promoted after E-6....

hopefully i've gotten everything pretty much right...i know if something is wrong someone else will have the right answer...

Answer 4

E-6 is higher than E-5 or E-4 my dad was an E-9 Master Chief in the Navy. It took him 23 years to make E-9.

Answer 5

which branch? increased pay and increased responsibility, certainly.

at this stage of the game, you must take a test in order to be advanced in addition to other things like Time in Service and Time in Grade. The higher ranking you are, generally speaking the more collateral duties you will have, such as running the PRT or making up the duty roster. Additionally, you will have more people working under you.

Answer 6

Don't forget, there is a difference between pay grade and rank...though they equate to the same thing.

The E-4 is the paygrade while SPC (Specialist) or CPL (Corporal) is the rank.

"O" is the paygrade designator for officer, and "WO" is for Warrant Officer (if there are warrant officers) and I'm unsure of any addtional ones in other services outside of the army.

I'm only familiar with army designations but you can check these link to find out how much they get paid:

Wikipedia has the pay scale, but so does military.com:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_grade

But here is the site you want: Pay grade with rank designations for all services:

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/theorderlyroom/l/blenlrank.htm

Answer 7

E4 is Lower Enlisted...
E5 on up is NCO Enlisted....

As for responsibilities....it depends on each Unit and such. As for how long it takes to get from one to the next....E4 is an automatic transition....usually made within 3-4 years upon enlisting....To get to E5 depends on many variables...just like moving up to the next Rank...

Answer 8

depends on the branch of Military
Marines E-4 is Corporal

www.military.com
has all the ranks by service

Answer 9

Hey Mat2t thats funny stuff man, very true.....ha......go Navy

Answer 10

e4 =to corperal e5= to buck sargent e6= to staf sargent