

This makes tradition interesting, since there is only one Captain on a ship what do you call a Marine Captain who commands a company of troops? Major, the next rank up (c’mon ya can’t demote the fella, he gets a brevet!).īelow is an attempt compare the rank structures of different militaries with the US. This makes it impossible to properly compare different ranks between different militaries.Ī Captain in the Marines is not the same as a Captain in the Navy. For instance a Corporal in the US Marines usually commands a fireteam, but in the British Royal Marines a Corporal commands a squad (which they call a section).

Military units vary in thier ranks structure as much as anything else.
