<P> 1856 to 1871 British Ensign's collar rank insignia </P> <P> The ranks of ensign and cornet were abolished in the United States Army in the Army Organization Act of 1815 . </P> <P> In the United States Navy, the rank of ensign superseded passed midshipman in 1862 . Ensign is the junior commissioned officer rank in the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps, and the PHS Commissioned Corps . This rank is also used in the U.S. Maritime Service and the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps . Ensign ranks below lieutenant junior grade, and it is equivalent to a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, the Marine Corps, and the Air Force . </P> <P> Depending on the warfare community, an ensign may go directly to a warship after being commissioned to serve as a division officer, or he or she may serve up one to two years of specialty training before reporting to a combat unit (e.g. flight school, weapons systems school, navigator school, submarine school, amphibious warfare school, radar school). </P>

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