RE: Force sizes-Confusing US ranks
From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@h...>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:36:16 -0800
Subject: RE: Force sizes-Confusing US ranks
>From: "Bob Makowsky" <rmakowsky@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: RE: Force sizes-Confusing US ranks
>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:59:43 -0400
>
>Joe is correct, they do not modify ranks anymore, they use The Captain
for
>the one that runs the ship, if there is an Army Captain on board (O-3)
they
>would call him Capt Smith (Yes I know that is not the way you
abbreviate
>Army Captains but that is the way the Navy/Coast Guard abbreviate their
>Captain so they pronounce it that way <G>).
So much for tradition. Oh, well, I suppose nothing ever stays the same.
3B^2
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