[CaptainCrunch]

Its fine internally, but when they're out and about meeting new species or attending conferences you're not calling him your number 1.



Usually as executive officer is the official term, its exec or X.



But its nitpicking.



Going back to the ranks and lack of enlisted the life of an ensign should be horrible. Lots of toilet scrubbing and mopping and turning screws.



The Soviet military was very much like that not because of a lack of enlisted men, but because seargents who are the backbone of the military in the Soviet model are just conscripts with better training becoming insta sarges. So usually the Lt in the Soviet military did the work of the enlisted men, and the enlisted men did menial tasks like holding screwdrivers or mopping floors.