[ARC5] command set trivia

[Richard Knoppow]

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
>Sent: Oct 11, 2013 10:55 AM
>To: Arc5 at mailman.qth.net, arc5 at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [ARC5] command set trivia
>
>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

      If you have not already I suggest reading _History of Communications-Electronics in the United States Navy_  by Linwood S. Howeth. Its available as a free download from several sources on the web and is not difficult to find in the hardback edition.