Admiral Hopper

[dant@tekla.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque;1893;92-789;LP=A;60HC)]

>D Gary Grady writes:
>> Hopper was indeed promoted to Commodore. 

At retirement, it's common (in fact, policy) for the military to
give officers an extra promotion.  So it's quite likely that
Hopper retired as an O-8 Rear Admiral, Upper Half.  However, she
may have needed approval by a Congressional Committee to get the
promotion (I'm not sure if retirement promotions need the approval
or not.)

As far as I can tell, retirement promotions are mainly to give the
retiree more retirement pay.  Your tax dollars at work, ladies and
gentlemen.


Dale Worley writes:
>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.


There was also a certain amount of resentment from the other services
that Navy Captains jumped over the O-7 rank.

Now what this has to do with computers, I don't know.  (Except that
Commodores are pretty wimpy computers.)


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