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From: recko@chopin.DEC (But bless my heart, consider my position...)
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Subject: (the end of ?) an old discussion
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Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 16:01:03 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 10 16:01:03 1986
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I don't mean to restart an old discussion, in fact I'd like to think that
this might end it once and for all.   I happened on the following article
in the January 5, 1986 issue of the Parade Magazine (from the Boston Globe):

(from the Associated Press:)
	WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Navy, not satisfied with the venerable rank
of "commodore" or the imprecise title of "rear admiral," has invented the
unlikely sounding new rank with the privileges of both: "rear admiral lower
half."
	Until this month, a Navy captain who won his first star was called
a commodore.  Next came rear admiral, vice admiral and admiral.  The 1986
budget bill deletes the title of commodore and replaces it with rear admiral
lower half.
	In reality, nobody is going to address somebody in person as "rear
admiral lower half."

	tr (tim recko, DEC-Littleton, MA)