Joint Service?

Ijuin said:
(IIRC, in the modern USA Navy, "Commodore" is an honorary rank, and the ranks are O-7: Rear Admiral, O-8: Vice Admiral, O-9: Admiral, O-10: Fleet Admiral.)
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Actually, O-7 is "Rear Admiral, Lower Half", and O-8 is "Read Admiral, Upper Half". The remaining ranks are the same, but the "Fleet Admiral" rank you mentioned is added as O-11.

How embarrassing it must be to have a rank like RAdm, Lower Half... it's like they're calling you the ass of a rear admiral.
 
Side note, I noticed the WCNEWS site lists the ranks with attatched insignia. The naval rank of commander is the same badge as the SF Colonel except that it is silver instead of gold. Although, the only commander we have seen in game is the CAG from the Midway, and her badge appears to be a silver equal sign (equal width rectangles, one above the other, instead of the larger rectangle below smaller rectangle that we see for the SF colonel).
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I think we changed that a while back; try clearing your buffer.
 
I haven't really followed this thread much but I think everyone misunderstood what I meant about the Marines. I didn't mean that the TCSF had the same role as US Marines. I meant that my view on the TCSF was that they were in the same situation as the US Marines, acting as a separate branch but still being a division of the Navy. That was my view on it. That was how I figured pilots could switch between the two and become Captains because the TCSF and TCN are really the same branch, just separate divisions.
 
Do you mean pilots switching between being marines and being in the Navy/Space Forces?
That doesn't make much sense. :/
 
Arg...NO!

The modern day US Marine Corps is a division of the US Navy. What I'm saying is that I think the Confed Space Forces is a division of the Confed Navy in the same manner, which would explain why Space Forces pilots could become officers in the regular Navy.
 
Sarty said:
Arg...NO!

The modern day US Marine Corps is a division of the US Navy. What I'm saying is that I think the Confed Space Forces is a division of the Confed Navy in the same manner, which would explain why Space Forces pilots could become officers in the regular Navy.
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Ooohhh I understand you now. My misunderstanding.
The reason I interpreted it like that because I saw a peice of fan art (by all means a fantastic looking peice) however the pilot wore a slightly different uniform and was described as something like a "marine pilot", which absolutely baffled me.
 
Sarty said:
I haven't really followed this thread much but I think everyone misunderstood what I meant about the Marines. I didn't mean that the TCSF had the same role as US Marines. I meant that my view on the TCSF was that they were in the same situation as the US Marines, acting as a separate branch but still being a division of the Navy. That was my view on it. That was how I figured pilots could switch between the two and become Captains because the TCSF and TCN are really the same branch, just separate divisions.
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This is how I have come to understand the Navy/Space Force thing.

Notice, the insignia of a naval captain is the same insignia of a Brigadier General except the naval insignia is silver and the SF one is gold.

Traditionally, silver insignia outranks gold, ie Major and Lt. Colonel both share a clover leaf, the only difference is that the Lt. Colonel leaf is silver and the Major's is gold.

The system of Confed rank insignia used from 2669 onwards would indicate that the Space Force was or is a subservient division of the TCN.
 
Erm, the MAJ and LCOL are oak leaves, not clover leaves. :)

(Or, alternately, fig leaves, which Man, according to one wag, has been using for milennia to cover dicks.)
 
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