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| Hello, Could you help me? I need English names of all military ranks from sailor to captain. Thanks and bye, (23 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) The ranking systems are basically the same for all navies around the world. You have two different 'classes', if you will, in a Navy: Officer and Enlisted. For the officers it goes like this (from lowest Officer rank to highest rank): Ensign (...) (23 years ago, 3-Nov-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Hmm... this might depend on the era you're talking about. If you're talking about modern Navies, Rick's got it on the nose. If you're looking at the Age of Sail, things are a bit different... I'm not fully brished up on Royal Navy (...) (23 years ago, 3-Nov-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Hello Rick, (...) Thank you, it will help me a lot. Thanks! :) Bye, (23 years ago, 3-Nov-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Hello Kenneth, (...) You both guys helped me a lot. Thank you very much! :) Bye, (23 years ago, 3-Nov-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Enlisted. (...) 'merican, the UK ranks at present are slightly different... Officer Cadet Acting Sub-Lieutenant (pronounced "LEFT-Tenant, not LOO-Tenant) Sub-Lieutenant Lieutenant Liewtenant Commander Commander Captain And then, it goes into (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Ahem: Smarty-pants Snarky Answer™ ahead! (...) I don't know if I could name them all; in the age of Pirates, *everyone* was pretty rank! Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. LFB (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Hello, (...) I don't get it, but, hey, thanks! ;D Bye, (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Rank... as in odoriferous, smelly, stinky. Odor de Pirate... Gotta love it!! - Joe "Semper Fi - More than words... It's a way of Life." (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Ha. This is *so* what I look like when I'm not laughing. (Conidering you can't see me, it's all quite fruitless... but suffice it to say I'm not...) ; ) Kenneth Tam GA 826 Squadron (URL) - Well, maybe chuckling... (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Yeah, well, the parrot tells it better, but he's busy doing shoe commercials. heh LFB (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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| Hello Josiah, (...) Yep, I've checked in the dictionary... Well, Mr Braun, you shouldn't laugh at poor little guy, who don't speak English as good as you do ;) Bye, (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) No, I wasn't laughing at you, not at all. I was just making a pun--a highly developed lowbrow art form in English in particular, because we take our words from so many different languages. My favorite Polish term is "packzi." Mmmmmm! (Poles do (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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