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i'm cooking the veggies and valuing myself! ([personal profile] themeletor) wrote2005-06-21 01:14 pm
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Hullo, time for the Most Retarded Question Ever...

Major brainfart over here, liek whoah. So, humor me if you please, and...

can a lieutenant have seniority aboard a ship yet still be younger than his junior officer(s)? not saying he's at the top of the ladder, just... a few rungs up. and fragmentationally (oh that is SO a word; shut up) younger than ... the rungs beneath him.

Ee?
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[personal profile] melusina 2005-06-21 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
The way I understand it, a midshipman is an officer who hasn't passed the lieutenant's exam. So if someone was very clever and able, he might pass it and become a lieutenant before other midshipman who were older, but having more difficulties with the exam. . .

[identity profile] meletor-et-al.livejournal.com 2005-06-21 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
thank you. that's just what was lurking waiting to smack me on the head...

*phew* I shall wait to kick myself until after writing.