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I saw that, but didn’t comment.

When I feel the need to comment on something military related, I try to get those details right. Some of it I know (Navy related) but some I don’t (such as unit designations in the USMC, or various ratings that I am less familiar with.)

When I don’t, I make an attempt to find out. In this case, I had no idea if the new, woke military was fudging around with designations and such (particularly the USN differentiation-Commodore is an unusual designation during peacetime, IIRC, it was only used in war as a temporary designation for a Captain who was temporarily in charge of a large sub-unit, but otherwise, the transition was always from Captain to Rear Admiral, not Captain to Commodore to Rear Admiral) so...I just let it pass.

It is telling when journalists don’t even bother to determine details, that oversight something they appear to excel at.

Commodore has been used in peacetime as a title rather than an official rank. The one example I experienced was nearly fifty years ago when the overseas commanding officer of a submarine tender was a Captain. He was also ComSubRon and Senior Officer Present Afloat (SOPA). IIRC, the host nation replaced their local Captain with a Captain senior to ours. Our captain was bestowed the title of Commodore to preserve the proper order of things. A few years later he went on to become a Rear Admiral.

https://nara.getarchive.net/media/commodore-dean-r-sackett-jr-usn-uncovered-3a0232