Is captain a prestigious rank?

But among commissioned officer ranks, it is a relatively low rank. Although it is superior to a 2nd Lieutenant and a 1st Lieutenant, it is junior to a Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier General, Major General, Lieutenant General, General, and General of the Army.



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It is entirely possible that any and every rank can see active combat. On a regular and normal basis, a Captain would be the highest ranking officer in ground forces to be expected to be a trigger puller. Anyone above that rank could, but would not be expected, to be pulling triggers.

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In the U.S. military, a colonel in the army is the equivalent rank of a captain in the navy. The reason that colonel is pronounced like kernel in English is that the French borrowed colonel from Italian and pronounced the word with an /r/ sound, spelling it coronel. The word then came into English from French.

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