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===Canada=== ====Canadian Armed Forces==== The appointment of sergeant major is given to the senior non-commissioned member within sub-units, units and some formations of the Canadian Army. The regimental sergeant-major is the senior sergeant major in a unit, such as armoured, artillery, engineer, and signal regiments, and infantry and service battalions. This appointment is normally held by a [[chief warrant officer]]. Within sub-units (such as squadrons, companies and artillery batteries) the sub-unit sergeant-major generally holds the rank of master warrant officer and is known as a squadron, company or, battery sergeant major. They are addressed as "Sergeant-Major" (i.e. "SSM", "CSM", "BSM", etc.), "Mr", or "Ms" by officers and "Sir" or "Ma'am" by subordinates with the same conventions used for regimental sergeant majors. In some unusual cases, a [[Chief Petty Officer 1st Class|chief petty officer 1st class]] or [[Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class|chief petty officer 2nd class]] in the [[Royal Canadian Navy]] may succeed to a sergeant major's position, especially in units with a large number of "[[purple trades]]", such as [[service battalion]]s. The forms of address generally remain the same, except that chief petty officers 1st and 2nd class are never addressed as "Sir" or "Ma'am", but as "Chief". Sergeant majors do not form part of the formation, unit, or sub-unit chain of command, as their role is to advise their commander on matters pertaining to the organization's non-commissioned members. ====Royal Canadian Mounted Police==== Sergeant major is a rank in the [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]]. While technically it is the sixth level of rank, below [[Corps Sergeant Major|corps sergeant major]] and above [[Staff Sergeant Major|staff sergeant major]], it, along with the other two, is a specialized rank and not part of the normal progression, which proceeds from staff sergeant to inspector.
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