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Originally Posted by MarchHare
That's easily explained away. The bridge crew and other Galactica personnel use naval ranks while the Viper and Raptor pilots use air force ranks. So Captain Starbuck is equivalent to a naval lieutenant, and Major Lee is equivalent to a naval lieutenant commander. Why they mix-and-match ranks like that when aviators on aircraft carriers still use naval ranks is beyond me, though.
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I'm no expert but there's more mixing-and-matching than that, right? Colonel Tigh, for example. Colonel is an airforce rank, is it not? Yet, he's still a bridge officer.