[ARC5] command set trivia

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 11 Oct 2013 at 12:59, Bill Cromwell wrote:

> In the Navy the commanding officer of a vessel is also titled Captain 
> regardless of his actual rank. Room for some confusion there. A Navy 
> Lieutenant is the same rank as a Captain in those other branches. More 
> confusion. Many of you surely already knew that but some may not have 
> been all that familiar with those or not known at all.

My reading of several articles on the BBs, made me aware of the confusion 
and contradictory ideas involved in Naval "doctrine" since early in the 20 th 
century...and even before. It all, more or less, came together late in WWII.

So, none of this is a bit surprising to me. My step-father was a QM on a DE 
during WWII. My father was a gunner in the Navy. He had very, very severe 
PTSD afterwards, and never really recovered. He died in 1978. I never got a 
chance to know him. I talked with one of his sisters, however, and she gave 
me much of his Navy stuff.

Neither one ever told me much about the Navy nor their experiences, but I 
managed to "surmise" a lot.

Ken W7EKB