From: "Rudnicki, Edward J." Subject: RE: |SKML| Navy/Marine Parallels Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 14:53:53 -0400 >>>The Enforcers use US Navy ranks (at least it looks like it), even >>I dunno. Wasn't there a sergeant or two? Lieutenant and Captain >>are widespread, and Commander is pretty generic. Seems a stretch. > >Ah but Commander *isn't* generic. In the States, the only branch of the >armed services that has the rank of CDR is the Navy. Yes, in the US armed forces that's true, but if you look elsewhere "commander" can apply to a high rank in any uniformed organization - military, police, firefighters. >But having said that, CDR Feral only seems to be drawn with 2 strips on his >shoulder boards which makes him a Lieutenant. (Or at best a LCDR if we >wanted to pretend that the middle strip isn't quite visible). But that's only if you assume that the rank structure parallels the USN. >>are somehow better than Sailors, are you? If so, I could tell you some >>howlingy funny stories about the kind of pranks played on Marines aboard > >Marines are better than sailors! Now I wanna hear a story ;) Picture if you will the mess crew aboard USS LONG BRANCH learning in advance of a shipboard security incident drill, in which fully armed and loaded jarheads go running through the ship at full tilt, knocking everyone out of their way. But with that advanced knowledge, picture a very clean and very thoroughly WAXED messdeck along the Marines' path. You know the rest.... Ed Rudnicki ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is sponsored by PEAK,Inc. ISP and Education Center Public Electronic Access to Knowledge,Inc http://www.peak.org 850 SW 15th Street Corvallis Oregon 97333 (541) 754-7325