Bannon was a Lieutenant, O-3, equal to an Army or Air Force Captain. He was NOT, after 7 years in the Navy a Captain, O-6, when he left active duty. He was a surface warfare officer, ran the engineering section and was later the ship’s navigator for the destroyer to which he was assigned. He may have done intel during his Pentagon tour.
“He was a surface warfare officer, ran the engineering section and was later the ship’s navigator for the destroyer to which he was assigned.”
Good enough. Few men and no women can perform those duties adequately.