Not exactly. There's different levels of authority in a military- everybody gets different ranks. My rank's supposed to be major, and his is colonel, which is above mine. But there's still ranks above his, like brigadier-general, major-general, lieutenant-general, and full general, right up to the leader of the country, the Fuhrer president.

[Who is secretly an immortal, ridiculously powerful homunculus, but that's another story.]