Re: Force sizes-Confusing US ranks

On 22-Mar-02 at 12:07, Joe Ross (ft4breedn@hotmail.com) wrote:
> 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..

Just before I got out 10 years ago a directive came down that said
we were no longer to use the word Commodore, we were to use the
term RA-LH.  It even had justification, Commodore was being confused
with Commander by the civilians.