Why is the eagle on Naval captain rank facing the opposite way of the eagle on colonel rank in other branches?
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I'm sure its some age old tradition (like putting the riding boots on backwards on a horse for the death of an officer or other highly ranked/respected official)
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By their Rank, if Officers (Sir or Ma'am), if Enlisted (rank), just address with RESPECT -- because they have served, are serving, and deserve the respect for VOLUNTEERING to do what others are unwilling ... that is:  "Support and Defend the Constitution of the US".\n\nThis is the appropriate way to address any Military Servicemember -- whether they serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, or Coast Guard.
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First, the English did NOT "mess up the French word".  The change to "r" happened in the Romance languages and was borrowed into English.  A few details are unclear but it went something like this:\n\n1) The earlier name for this officer was "colonnello", a form found in Old Italian and going back to Latin for "line commander" (through "colonna", meaning "line" from Latin "columna" [cf. "column"]; the Latin name of the officer was columnellus).\n\n2) In Spain, around 1505 (under King Ferdinand), we find an altered form of this word -- "coronel"  (which is STILL the Spanish word for "colonel").  \n\nHow this Spanish form came about is explained as either \n\na) it was deliberatelyl created/altered to mark the person as an officer of the "crown", i.e., the king (Spanish for "crown" is "corona"); some say this came from confusion about the word's origins   \nhttp://www.history.navy.mil/trivia/triv4-5i.htm\n\nOR\nb) it was just an example of "dissimilation" -- a natural sound change in which one of two similar or identical sounds in the same word changes. \nhttp://www.yourdictionary.com/library/alike1.html\n\nShifts of one L  in a word to R in Latin and Romance languages are well-known   (we see it, for instance, in the adjective ending -al, which becomes -al after words ending with L; thus we have "orbit" > "orbital"  but "module" > "modular"..  just try saying "modulal" and you'll understand why it was changed!)\nhttp://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=225168\nhttp://cspeech.ucd.ie/~fred/teaching/oldcourses/phonetics/rules1.html\n\n(My take --very likely,  "coronel" came about by dissimilation, and was THEN re-interpreted [not invented] as related to "crown")\n\n\n3) By 1538 the English are using the word "coronel", borrowed either directly from the Spanish, or from Middle French.   By a slight shortening of the vowels (a common enough change) it soon is pronounced /kern'l/.  This continues to be THE pronunciation in English.   \n\nMeanwhile, the FRENCH shift BACK to "colonel"\nhttp://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-col1.htm\n\n(In other words, if you can't see it coming...  "the FRENCH are to blame!!")\n\n4) Later (in the 17th century) the form "colonel" was borrowed from Modern French.  This was apparently an effort to go back and get the "correct" etymological form.  For a time BOTH written forms -- "coronel" and "colonel" -- are found in English,  but eventually in the 19th century the pedants who do this succeed in establishing the "correct spelling" as "colonel".    BUT they do NOT succeed in getting people to change from the established English pronunciation /kern'l/.   \n\n(In other words, the real shift here was adopting the Modern French spelling "colonel".  The problem is NOT from the English "messing up" a French word, but because English grammarians showed RESPECT for the French!)\n\n------------------------------------\n\nAs for the British pronunciation of "lieutenant", that's another of those English-meets-French (with less that satisfactory results) things -- check out:\nhttp://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20000107
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When I was in the armed forces, the Canadians & us (the U.S.)equated an Army Captain with a Naval Lieutenant.\n\nPS In the U.S. Navy there's also a Lieut. Junior Grade (JG) equal to an Army 1st Lieut & a Navy Ensign equal to an Army 2nd Lieut. If memory serves, these used to go by "sub" & "acting sub" in the Canadian Navy. Of course this was \nsome years ago.\n\nPSS Ensign is not slang. It is an official rank.
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If you look at guidons (the wooden flag staffs) carried in parades or on display, you see that the flag is achored on the "Star" side.  Moving forward with the flag causes it to unfurl and blow in the wind with the stars leading.  The same is true on uniforms.  The flag is always represented with the stars advancing.
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The army uses "as you were", and the navy uses "carry on" when an officer passes by and the enlisted men come to attention and salute.  He says this to have them return to what they were doing.
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U.S. federal code calls for the canton to always be positioned to the left.\n\nThe Army actually has two authorized flag patches, one to be worn on the left shoulder, with the canton facing left, and another "reverse field" patch worn on the right, with the canton facing right. \n\nThe two different orientations are mandated because Army regulations call for the flag "to be worn so that to observers, it looks as if the flag is flying against a breeze," Heath said. \n\nWhat does a stiff wind have to do with this custom?\n\nIn fact, the rule is a nod to the U.S. Army's early history, when wars were fought as a series of carefully choreographed battles -- two armies meeting on a field, clashing head-on until one side emerged victorious. \n\nIn those battles, both mounted cavalry and infantry units would always designate one soldier as "standard bearer," to carry the Colors into the fight. \n\nAs the standard bearer charged, his rapid forward momentum would cause the flag to stream back. \n\nAnd since the Stars and Stripes is mounted with the canton closest to the pole, that section would always be forward. \n\nSo if a soldier is charging into the battle, the flag would give the appearance of forward motion. For the right shoulder, the flag only appears "backward."\n\nAnd that's why soldiers wear the flag patches on the right shoulder "backward." Because retreat in battle, as any soldier will tell you, is not the Army way.
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You can go to each branch's website, they have pics of graduation day and things like that. Those are dress uniforms, but the officer uniforms are different from elisted, so if you see some differences that's probably why. If you want to email me, i can give you info about AF uniforms. The Navy has about a million different uniforms and I don't know much about them, but I'm pretty knowledgeable about AF insignia. malorie.gutierrez@yahoo.com
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The reverse of the one dollar bill has an ornate design that incorporates the Great Seal of the United States, and it is of noted interest to historians and numerologists for the symbols contained therein.\n\nThe reverse of the seal which portrays an unfinished pyramid. The separated cap of the pyramid, portraying the all-seeing eye, symbolizes that the United States is still far from finished. The Latin phrase Annuit Cœptis (He [God] has favored our undertaking) is located above the pyramid. NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM (New Order of the Ages) is shown on a ribbon below the pyramid. Written at the base of the pyramid in Roman Numerals is MDCCLXXVI or 1776, the year the United States Declaration of Independence was signed.
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Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps members become military officers, unlike the RCAC.\n\nThe Boy Scouts of America used to have something called the Air Scouts, with four ranks: Apprentice, Observer, Craftsman, and Ace; but abolished it.\n\nThe closest thing left in the States is the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Program:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Air_Patrol#The_Cadet_Program
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There are usually offensive, defensive, and special teams captains. I don't know any of the Eagles' captains but think Brian Dawkins might be the defensive captain
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OK it is very simple. when a flag is raised on a vehicle or a ship and that ship or vehicles is going into battle the flag waves. thus the stars lead the way. so the flag is sown on the uniforms the same way so that when the troops go into battle the stars lead the way as if it was waving in the wind. also when the Calvary carried the flags into battle on horseback the stars lead the way. that is the reason and not some stupid teenage immature answer
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U.S. Army ribbons are worn on the wearer's left side. These are individual ribbons (individual awards, campaign ribbons, etc). The U.S. equivalent to the Victoria Cross is the Medal of Honor. It is worn on the wearer's left side.  The order of precedence begins on the extreme left side of the chest (nearest the left arm) on the bottom row (right above the left chest pocket).  The ribbons are stacked in rows of either three to four ribbons as high as they go. The Medal of Honor is first in order of precedence and therefore would be at the very top of the stack.  Unit awards in the U.S. Army are worn on the wearer's right side. These are also worn in order of precedence from left to right.
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There are several branches of the military with several different ranks (like army/navy/marine corps/air force/etc.)\n\nFirst resource states:\nArmy Ranks are broken down by enlisted and officer.\n\nEnlisted Ranks\n  E-1 Private\n  E-2 Private\n  E-3 Private First Class\n  E-4 Specialist\n  E-5 Sergeant\n  E-6 Staff Sergeant\n  E-7 Sergeant First Class\n  E-8 Master Sergeant\n  E-8 First Sergeant\n  E-9 Sergeant Major\n  E-9 Command Sergeant Major\n  E-10 Sergeant Major of the Army\n\nWarrant Officer Ranks\n  W-1 Warrant Officer 1\n  W-2 Chief Warrant Officer 2\n  W-3 Chief Warrant Officer 3\n  W-4 Chief Warrant Officer 4\n  W-5 Master Warrant Officer 5\n\nOfficer Ranks\n  O-1 Second Lieutenant\n  O-2 First Lieutenant\n  O-3 Captain\n  O-4 Major\n  O-5 Lieutenant Colonel\n  O-6 Colonel\n  O-7 Brigadier General\n  O-8 Major General\n  O-9 Lieutenant General\n  O-10 General\n  O-10 General of the Army (wartime rank)\n\nI could paste the rest in this answer, but what I will do is give you some website resources to read up on the other forces of the military.  See below resources.
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Some people have gotten the answer half right. The flag, when worn on the right sleeve, has the union (the field of stars) at the top right. This is to show the flag as it would appear if it were on a flagpole with the wind coming from the right. This is to represent the forward motion of the soldier. The flag would only show the "right" way if the soldier was walking backward.\n\nFlag patches worn on the left sleeve are configured in the commonly accepted "right" way.
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Yes, but it only applies to pay grade. For example. a Captain in the Navy out ranks a Captain in the Army. In the Navy, a Captain has a pay grade of O-6, and in the Army, the pay grade is O-3.
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As best as I can remember, the Joint Chiefs of Staff outranks all others by position.  As far as the brnaches, the Army, Navy, and Air Force are all their own department and hence the same, some people go by when the branch was established which would be Army Navy Air Force (sorry Marines fall under the Dept of Navy).  The Marines actually fall under the Department of the Navy.  The Coast Guard is not part of Dept of Defense and upon act of Congress can be placed under the direction of the Navy, but like the Marines is it's own branch of the military.