Re: Force sizes-Confusing US ranks

At 8:16 AM -0800 3/22/02, Brian Bilderback 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).

And I've read more than once that an Army/Marine/Navy Captain on a 
Navy ship is given the honorific rank of Major as, again, there is 
only one captain on any given vessel.

Here's a question. Are CAG's Captain ranks or typically Cmdr or Lt-Cmdr
ranks?

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