From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_DATE, MSGID_SHORT,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!decvax!tektronix!zeus!tekla!dant From: dant@tekla.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque;1893;92-789;LP=A;60HC) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc Subject: Admiral Hopper Message-ID: <2317@zeus.TEK.COM> Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 19:05:13 EDT Article-I.D.: zeus.2317 Posted: Fri Aug 28 19:05:13 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 06:40:59 EDT References: <1502@cullvax.UUCP> Sender: news@zeus.TEK.COM Reply-To: dant@tekla.UUCP (Dan Tilque) Organization: First National Security Trust Bar and Grill Xref: mnetor comp.lang.ada:604 comp.lang.c:4008 comp.lang.misc:638 List-Id: >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.) --- Dan Tilque dant@tekla.tek.com or dant@tekla.UUCP