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Acting Pilot Officer ('''APO''') is the lowest commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force , being immediately junior to Pilot Officer . Unlike other RAF ranks which officers may hold in an acting capacity, Acting Pilot Officer is maintained as a separate rank. It normally denotes an officer who has recently been comissioned and joined as a non-graduate direct entrant. Although Acting Pilot Officer has a NATO ranking code of OF-1, neither the British Army , Royal Marines nor Royal Navy has an exactly equivalent rank. As Acting Pilot Officers are junior to Second Lieutenants in the British Army or the Royal Marines and Royal Navy Sub-Lieutenants , the rank is the most junior comissioned rank in the British Armed Forces. However, Acting Pilot Officers are senior to Royal Navy Midshipmen . The rank insignia is identical to that of a Pilot Officer, consisting of a thin blue band on slightly wider black band. This is worn on both the lower sleeves of the tunic or on the shoulders of the flying suit or the casual uniform. SEE ALSO |
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