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From: dtuttle@uw-june (David C. Tuttle)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re:* Commodores and Admirals
Message-ID: <99@uw-june>
Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 00:44:02 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 17 00:44:02 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 18-Nov-85 06:34:44 EST
Organization: U of Washington Computer Science
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>In article <3168@hplabsb.UUCP> bl@hplabsb.UUCP writes:
>>It's official, the navy has dropped the rank of commodore.  Those officers
>>who used to be commodores (one star) will now be known as "rear admiral
>>lower half".  Officers with two stars will now be known as "rear admiral
>>upper half".  I kid you not!

>Care to cite your source?  I just got out of the Navy, and about 3-4 yrs ago
>they reinstituted the rank of Commodore.  It seems that the other one-star
>officers (Brigadier General) were upset that the Navy one-stars got a
>free ride to two stars.
>	John Allred

Well, I read it in the paper last week, and if you can't believe what
you read in the paper, what *can* you believe? :-)
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