Re: Force sizes-Confusing US ranks

Same thing with our ranks structure... frinstance:

I know that a leuitenant in the usn is a captain in the marines, am LT
in 
the corp is an ltjg in hte navy... etc.

>From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com>
>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 09:09:31 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>--- David Brewer <davidbrewer@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > There's some misalignment between US and UK junior
> > NCOs, so that a
> > US Army sergeant is, I think, a UK corporal.
>
>The Official NATO-approved rank equivelancy runs thus:
>
>US Rank   UK Rank
>Private   Private
>PFC	   Lance Corporal
>Corporal  Corporal
>Sergeant  Sergeant
>SSG	   Sergeant
>SFC/MSG   Color Sergeant
>1SG/SGM   WO
>CSM/SMA   Whatever you call it with the lions holding
>up the coat of arms and a crown on top.
>
>I've got pictures but not titles for the UK stuff.
>It's from the KFOR Handbook and the point is really to
>show who you salute and who you don't.  And even then
>no one cared--I kind of startled an RRF major when I
>actually knew to salute him once.
>
>John
>
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