Jeffrey MacHott wrote:
> Vorlonagent wrote:
>> "Jeffrey MacHott"  wrote in message 
>> news:Uz_yh.43099$Dx5.24454{at}fe10.news.easynews.com...
>>> Vorlonagent wrote:
>>>
>>>> What fighters do in combat is precisely what the Alexander's 
>>>> fighters *weren't* doing: They dodge around and hit vulnerable or 
>>>> strategic spots on a ship.  At least they do if there aren't enemy 
>>>> fighters to get in their way.  We see this illustrated
nicely in the 
>>>> main fight of Severed Dreams and in lots of other episodes.
>>> Good point there.  I'm just gonna assume (Go Go Gadget Fanwank!) that 
>>> the Alexander's air wing (space wing?) was under some confusion, 
>>> presumably due to losses in their chain of command (General Hague was 
>>> dead, of course, and Majors aren't usually in command of Destroyers, 
>>> which means there's a Captain either pushing up daisies or cooling 
>>> his heels in a brig, and you'd usually find a Commander tooling 
>>> around as a Destroyer XO, but no sign of that, so on so forth.
>>>
>>> Fortunately, by the time they got to B5, they seem to have figured 
>>> out what it is they're supposed to be doing.
>>
>> I would expect that Ryan was the Alexander's captain.  Presumably, 
>> Hage had his flag aborad the Alexander but direct command was someone 
>> else's job. Ryan was either Hague's chief of staff or the captain of 
>> the Alexander.  If Ryan wasn't the captain, the other guy was.
>>
>> There is precedent, after a fashion.  Sheridan, a captain, had command 
>> on an omega, you'll remember.  In the mad, mixed up world of B5 
>> officer ranks, one has to assume a major outranks a captain. :)
> 
> Except that in the mad, mixed up world of B5 officer ranks, a Major 
> doesn't even outrank a Lieutenant Commander, but that was back in the 
> early seasons of B5 where all the officer ranks still made sense.
> 

If Lieutenant Colonels can exist possibly Major Captains also exist.
Such a rank would be higher than other naval captains but less than a
general.

Andrew Swallow
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