Re: Force sizes-Confusing US ranks

On 22-Mar-02 at 11:17, Brian Bilderback (bbilderback@hotmail.com) wrote:

> Correct.  Except that any USN officer who is the CO of a ship is
always 
> called Captain while onboard his own ship, regardless of rank, and a
naval 
> officer of the rank of Captain is never called captain while onboard
> another  officer's ship (IIRC the honorific for such an officer is
> Commodore, but I  could be wrong).

I wonder what the conversion is since the Navy did away with the
rank of Commodore.  FYI the name was changed to "Rear Admiral, Lower
Half."	It is somehow...appropriate.