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[aliendial]

You guys need to bone up on Navy ranks....their enlisted are seamen and various levels of petty officer; and no warrant officers in the Marines, either - just a variety of privates, corporals and sergeants.

Try this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Navy_enlisted_rate_insignia

[fugitivesoldier]

I'm gonna bust out of school early to catch the 8:11 PDT axon.


Do you think a rank of "Lieutenant in ONI" would go over well?

Or would i get railed with a weird question about the Office of Naval Intelligence?

I'm either trying that or going with CPO. Because Mendez was cool

[Kazic]

Thanks for that link aliendial, it's very helpful. You think she'd believe me if I told her I was an admiral?

[Mike_Was]

[voipme]

[fugitivesoldier]

Does anyone know offhand if any ONI "spooks" were mentioned as being on the Apocalypso?

I know there were conversations posted on ILB after Aug 10th, i think, that involved ONI personnel.

i think i'll try that route...

[Kazic]

[aliendial]

I don't know if she cares; look at all the ranks she's letting people claim. At the moment the ship is mostly officers. A few marine noncoms. I wonder who was doing the real work.

So Navy and Marine officers and noncoms to be expected. Avoid Army and Air Force ranks. Unless you think the Haloverse space navy grew out of the AF and not the Navy. Like I said, I don't think Melissa is troubled by what we think are the right types of ranks.

Claim whatever you want, but for realism I suppose Admirals are a bit beyond the norm for this scenario. Admirals generally aren't driving ships. They're running larger and larger organizations up the chain (bases, squadrons, etc). Ship captains are usually captains/commanders, depending. (voipme and mazian will, I am sure, point out where my vague recollections depart from reality; they're knowledgeable, I used to know a little about it.)

Not inconceivable to tuck in an Admiral for a specific purpose, I suppose. But more than one Admiral would look plain silly. An admiral might set up shop on a flagship or something like that, but I didn't think the Apocalypso was on that kind of mission.

Of course, that's reality. Not sure what the Haloverse would dictate. For all I know we'd get an interesting plot twist if someone senior to Captain Greene clocked in with Melissa.

[Tar Ecthelion]

[Kazic]

If I get a call, I might try it. I probably should have a back story to support the claim though eh?

[Shad0]

[_Ghost_]

Wait, the Apocalypso was a Navy ship? So we have to use Navy ranks?

[C_Brennan]

Yeah, I don't know if anyone should attempt anthing with ONI. I mean, there's a pretty large scale conspiracy with ONI, and the Apoc. was caught in the middle... so that might not go over well with Melissa.

[Lojack]

Well, a navy ship would have a marine detachment assigned to it, so no worries there. Because of this, navy/marine ranks are fine. As for upper ranks, while an admiral may use a ship as his flagship, he's not driving the boat, that is that captain's duty. The admiral would just be involved in the big picture stuff. But you'd think she might have records of VIPs on board, admirals usually aren't undercover.

As for myself, I thought that if asked, I'd take an enlisted position, probably naval, Warrant Officer range. Not exactly a grunt, but low enough on the totem pole that brass don't notice, but up enough so that there is some manner of freedom. (Just tried to figure out where my job would lie in relation to the Navy's way of assignments )

[Shad0]

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