Re: Force sizes-Confusing US ranks

Ryan Gill wrote:

>For example a Captain in the army is out ranked by a captain in the
>Navy by several degrees. iirc, an Army captain is something like the
>following:
>navy	army/airforce/marines
>ensign  2nd lt
>LT JG	1st lt
>LT	Captain
>Lt Cdr Major
>Cdr	Lt Col
>Capt	Col

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).

3B^2

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