From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Subject: Re: More fun stuff about Cobol
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 20:08:08 EDT [thread overview]
Date: Tue Aug 25 20:08:08 1987
Message-ID: <3758@ecsvax.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1490@cullvax.UUCP
In article <1490@cullvax.UUCP> drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley) writes:
>I believe that Grace Hopper has been promoted to Commodore, up from
>Captain.
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. (This odd terminology, especially in a service like the
Navy, leads to some obvious jokes.)
Anyway, I think Hopper retired after the wholesale conversion of
Commodores to Rear Admirals, so she retired a Rear Admiral.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1987-08-26 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1987-08-25 17:33 More fun stuff about Cobol Dale Worley
1987-08-26 0:08 ` D Gary Grady [this message]
1987-08-26 16:14 ` richard marks
1987-08-27 19:10 ` William Linden
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1987-08-27 15:22 Dale Worley
1987-08-29 17:32 ` jholbach
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