Re: Force sizes-Confusing US ranks

Actualy, in a time of war, rear-admirals are divided into lower and
upper 
halves, during peace time, they are both referred to as commodore, the 
"rank" has not been done away with, per se, but it is like calling a 
leuitenant that skippers a boat a captain... kinda but not really..

>From: Roger Books <books@jumpspace.net>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>Subject: Re: Force sizes-Confusing US ranks
>Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:59:31 -0500 (EST)
>
>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.
>
>Roger Books

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