<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=285167.msg14136762#msg14136762">Quote from: Triggvi on 12-05-2018, 03:50:33</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Petty officer 2nd is an E-5 in the US Navy. <br/><br/>Corporal is an E-3 in the army I believe.<br/><br/>The you don't Sir me, I work for a living is one of the first thing a recruit is told off the bus in boot camp.  Part enlisted humor but more truth than not. Enlist do the work and officers supervise.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I am expressly using the Traveller rules for the order of ranks as shown in the Core, not using US or any other country's current set, because nobody here rolled on the U.S. Military table in character generation. Thus the comment about comparing different nations having different rankings.<br/><br/>Basically, it's counting promotions, and existence or lack of a commission. If you have a commission, you get an 'O.' Your grade number increments up from zero with every promotion.<br/><br/>A Podpolkovnik in PVO Strany would be an O-5, and treated in international relations as the equal of an O-5 LTC in the USAF.