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Them be enlisted sailors. They have shiny rank insignia on the collar, so you might mistake them for occifers. Don't think Chiefs and officers have changed.

Ya ought to see the goofy "camo" utilities the sailors get to wear: a sort of black with blue motif. Dunno where that will blend in..........Camo for Air Force, camo for sailors, where will it end? Camo for Coast Guard?

I'm pretty sure he was officer grade. He had something to do with managing the pair of tourist boats going back and forth from the Arizona Memorial and the Missouri from the opposite side of Pearl Harbor.

I have to add that I had no idea the US had lost so many submarines in the war. Each submarine memorial stands on a stone pillar in a circle with each submarine's name, officers and crew names on a brass plate.

We also took a day and visited the Big Island to see the volcano. It's a 20 minute flight, then a bus ride to the “pit.”

We had been looking down into the crater for about half an hour, hacking and coughing from the smoke and dust when a US Parks Service guy emerged from the gift shop wearing a gas mask. He ordered us all inside because the volcano was giving off too much SO2.

This was one of the more amusing episodes, along with the Norwegian tourist lady whose shorts, shall we say, didn't quite cover her buns. The entire tour party laughed and pointed at this “hang out” repeatedly.