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		blantonl 69 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, ... CEOs are more like high ranking general officers, not O-6 level (Navy Captain, Army/Air force full bird colonel) O-5 (Lt Col, Navy Commander) would be VP / GM level stuff, GS-13 through GS-14 in the federal government O-6 equivalent in the civilian world equates to a GS-15 in the federal government, and a senior VP in the corporate world O-7 (brigadier general) would be an EVP level position, C-level large org O-8 (general) would be CEO

giraffe_lady 69 days ago [–]

I think you’re just assuming the highest corporate role must be equivalent to general and working back from that.

For understanding their actual scope of responsibility I think my model is more useful.

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