Nope. I really don’t care for someone using their military rank on their sleeve all the time. I know countless military officers and no one does it. If he had any credentials at all outside of having been in the military you’d think he would use those instead.
“Nope. I really don’t care for someone using their military rank on their sleeve all the time”
The term Colonel is also a title, from the commonweath of Kentucky as in Colonel Harland Sanders.
But Colonel West was army. I know plenty of retired Navy Chiefs who are still called chief. And there’s some Army Majors who are calked Major, although you won’t hear any Naval Lieutenant Commanders which is the same rank called Lieutenant Commander they just call them Commander but that’s not as frequent as either Chief, Major or Colonel or perhaps Naval Captain which is the same rank as full bird Colonel.
Allen West was not a full bird colonel he was a lieutenant colonel which in the Navy is called a Commander.
I don’t have a real problem with it but it’s kind of strange when a Lieutenant Commander wants to be referred to as Commander or Lieutenant Colonel wants to be referred to as a full bird colonel. Whereas a Major which is a Lieutenant Commander in the naval Services is sometimes referred to as Major for some reason.
Good point.