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From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Commodor/Captain
Message-ID: <1945@bmcg.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 19:32:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 15 19:32:00 1985
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> 
> The rank commodor is also used for an officer of the rank of captain on a ship
> other than his own since there is only one "Captain" on a ship. Also army
> captains will be called major aboard ship by naval personnel. At least that
> was the way Robert Heilein explained it in "Starship Troopers".
> -- 
> 				from the sleepy terminal of
> 				Darryl Baker
> 				[ihnp4!]laidbak!dpb

An army captain is = to a naval lieutenant (silver bars [railroad tracks])
An army major is = to a naval lieutenant commander (gold leaf [eagle splat])

When a Army Captain is onboard a naval ship he/she
is referred to as lieutenant. There are no full
lieutenants in the army so he is accorded his proper
rate and no confusion results.