The five highest US Army ranks are General Officers:
The President is the Commander in Chief. Highest Rank of the Military.
I think General Benedict Arnold for Treason.
In the US Military, it would be the highest ranking officer present at the time the medal is to be awarded.
The US Attorney General is the highest ranking officer of the US Department of Justice, aside from the President of the US.
The president.
Vice Chief of Staff.
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Presuming you mean "chief", the highest ranking officer in the British army is called a Brigadier.
Chief of Staff is the title of the highest ranking officer of the US Army. He holds the rank of General, which is an 0-10 / 4 star rank. The title of Commander-In-Chief is given to the President of the US and is the commanding authority for all military forces, but the holder of this rank, while often having served in the military, is not a military officer by virtue of title.
Politically appointed as Secretary of State. Militarily, he was the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest ranking Military Officer of all services.
In the United States Army the highest ranking officer is a General. Bellow him is a Lietenant General. But the highest rankin officer is a four star general deemed chief of staff
Richard Bong (US Army Air Corp's HIGHEST RANKING Fighter Pilot Ace during WW2), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Admiral King, General Dwight Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, General Stillwell, General Simon Buckner Jr. (Highest Ranking US Military Officer Killed by Enemy Fire during WW2).