On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 03:58, <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:When we elevate a senior non-com to an officer rank (give them a commission), the rank they assume is dependent on their time in service, rank, etc. and it can be as high as two bars (Captain in the Army). I think the term they use is Mustangs. They also tend to be the officers that get the most respect from the non-commissioned folk because they did their time in the 'trenches' (other ranks) before going to be an officer.Thank you for this.I think I may have read this somewhere but not really absorbed it.My Dad would never have told me this but I might quiz on him on it now! He started out as a very junior sailor in the Royal Navy and after 35 years eventually retired as a Lt Cdr having worked his way up. Indeed in *my* eyes he made Admiral as he was on a Special Duty list where he could never have been promoted beyond Commander. ;-)Somewhere I've got my notes I took when I interviewed him in detail on his career with the aim of doing an Imperial Navy officer profile as a kind of tribute. I must dig them out. (There's just too many (Traveller) jobs..... argh!) (I could retire right now and have enough writing projects to occupy me full time till, well, I don't know when, but for a long time.).In the meantime my tribute will have to be the Wooden Ships and Iron Men thing I did for Freelance way back (https://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/chargen/rttwetnavy.htm andWhat did happen to that Two-Space project Jeff? (BTW Jeff, I think the search on FT is still broken).Also<snip JZ's summary of academies>That's helpful, I sort of knew a quarter of that, vaguely knew half of that and didn't know the rest. Good to say it laid out like that and snipped to make a bookmark for my T5.1 book where that's relevant.cheerstc-----
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