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Advance Towelmaster ... and be recognised."Torchbearer" is a particularly great one.
Meanwhile in "Well Met By Starlight" I have a joint ESA-NASA-ASEAN mission where the US Space Force uses Air Force ranks and the ESA uses navy ranks, just to confuse everyone because captains are also lieutenants depending on whom you're speaking to.I've always felt we rather missed a chance with Air Forces mostly inheriting unit structure from armies and thus having Generals and the like, and then the US Space Force in particular splitting off from the Air Fore and mostly just sticking with Air Force which is to say mostly Army ranks. I was suggesting jokingly someplace that the Space Force should have its flag ranks be "Starlord"....
.....Anyway, Marvel references aside but on a relatively similar level of seriousness, I also proposed that the Space Force should solve the Army vs Navy question of how important a Captain is by making them the most important rank in any new force: the equivalent of a sergeant, as the base rank for senior enlisted.
Some of the ranks considered for use when the RAF was set up are interesting.Meanwhile in "Well Met By Starlight" I have a joint ESA-NASA-ASEAN mission where the US Space Force uses Air Force ranks and the ESA uses navy ranks, just to confuse everyone because captains are also lieutenants depending on whom you're speaking to.
No source mentioned on the Wikipedia talk pages either. I do wonder, though. Why should a neologism be created using Gaelic in 1919. It seems unlikely. I would have expected Greek or Latin at that time. According to Google TranslateArdian meaning "chief bird" in Gaelic?!
Can't see a source for this (nor on Google) but I would love for that to be true.
"Gunship" is one that I think would stick because A: It's been applied to aircraft and B: In the plausible 'ship built around a big weapon in a spinal mount' design, it's a good literal definition.
I actually like "guncraft" for an armed spacecraft.
I actually like "guncraft" for an armed spacecraft.
Yes, I think the RAF had a bit more imagination than other airforces in terms of ranks, though we do see some of the cavalry terminology turning up especially with squadron.I've always felt we rather missed a chance with Air Forces mostly inheriting unit structure from armies and thus having Generals and the like, and then the US Space Force in particular splitting off from the Air Fore and mostly just sticking with Air Force which is to say mostly Army ranks. I was suggesting jokingly someplace that the Space Force should have its flag ranks be "Starlord"....
.....Anyway, Marvel references aside but on a relatively similar level of seriousness, I also proposed that the Space Force should solve the Army vs Navy question of how important a Captain is by making them the most important rank in any new force: the equivalent of a sergeant, as the base rank for senior enlisted.
We also had those in the seventeenth century, which is one of those chronauseous things because England and Britain have this image of always being navy first. You'd expect us to have an 'Admiral-on-Land' rather than a 'General-at-Sea'. It does make a little more sense when you realise it was under the republican Commonwealth which was dominated by the New Model Army.I am uncertain if it is the case now, but in the Second World War, the Japanese had naval generals rather than admirals, and the equivalent down the ranks.