From: drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley)
Subject: More fun stuff about Cobol
Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 11:22:25 EDT [thread overview]
Date: Thu Aug 27 11:22:25 1987
Message-ID: <1502@cullvax.UUCP> (raw)
dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) writes:
> Hopper was indeed promoted to Commodore. I believe the Navy recently
> got rid of the rank of Commodore again, returning to the strange
> practice of several years ago that lumps O-7s (= Brig Gen in the other
> services) and O-8s (= Major Gen) together as Rear Admirals, lower and
> upper half.
Someone explained to me that for a while the Navy didn't have O-7s at
all, which caused problems because the big jump from O-6 to O-8 was hard
to make. So they re-instituted Commodores, but that sounded wimpyer
than Brig. Gen. They finally make O-7s a form of Admiral, so the set
of ranks labelled Admiral would be the same as the set labelled
General.
Dale
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1987-08-27 15:22 Dale Worley [this message]
1987-08-28 23:05 ` Admiral Hopper Dan Tilque;1893;92-789;LP=A;60HC
1987-08-30 3:59 ` Max A. Woodbury
1987-09-01 17:06 ` jholbach
1987-09-03 17:23 ` Michael Mullins
1987-09-01 17:11 ` bhj
1987-08-29 17:32 ` More fun stuff about Cobol jholbach
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1987-08-25 17:33 Dale Worley
1987-08-26 0:08 ` D Gary Grady
1987-08-26 16:14 ` richard marks
1987-08-27 19:10 ` William Linden
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