RE: US Ranks (was: Force sizes-Confusing US ranks)

Yeah, but if a lower-half refers to himself as a commodore, and he is
giving 
me an award, you can bet your ass they are all commodores until the
bullets 
are in MY direction.

>From: "Bell, Brian K (Contractor)" <Brian.Bell@dscc.dla.mil>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: "'gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu'" <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: RE: US Ranks (was: Force sizes-Confusing US ranks)
>Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:21:17 -0500
>
>Try
>http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/almanac/almanac/people/insignias/index.
html
>
>-----
>Brian Bell
>-----
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Case [mailto:tgunner@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 07:30
>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>Subject: Re: Force sizes-Confusing US ranks
>
>[smip]
>
>Any way, the branches of the US armed forces take that rank structure
and
>hang their own hats on it: for example, an e-3 in the Army is a Private
>First Class, while the same e-3 in the Marine Corps is called a lance
>corporal... and you got me what the Navy and the Air Corps (snickers)
call
>that rank (sorry for that little interservice jab up there ;).
>[snip]
>
>HOPS VINCET! ATWTMATMUTATB

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