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Egan Loo (eganloo@anime.net)
Sat, 9 Oct 1999 01:40:09 -0700
At 8:25 PM -0700 1999.10.8, -Z- wrote:
>At 19:16 10/8/1999 +1300, you wrote:
>>Shin-pei is Recruit so it's E-1
>>Hei-sotsu is your E-2
>>Jo-to-hei is Private First Class so it's E-3
>>Go-cho-kin-mu-jo-tou-hei is Lance Corporal so it is E-3 equivalent
>
>This would make a great set of tables on a Web page....
Yep, and a huge one too ... ^^; I've been working on one such in my spare
time, but even unfinished, it has almost twenty service columns. @_@; (US
Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force; UK's British Army, Royal Navy, RAF;
Imperial Japanese Army, Navy; JGSDF, JMSDF, JASDF; Gundam's Federal,
Zeon/Neo-Zeon; Macross's UN Spacy; Legend of the Galactic Heroes's
Alliance, Empire). What really makes it hairy is that there are many
redundancies and that each column is further divided into English, JIS
Japanese, and Romanized Japanese renditions where applicable .When it's
remotely close to being reviewable ^^;, I'll let people know. In the
meantime, you can check out:
http://www.socio.kyoto-u.ac.jp/%7Ejun/sim/rank.html
http://plaza9.mbn.or.jp/~zenibo/mcl01.htm
>There's a third class of military ranks, little seen in the American
>military since WW2, called Warrant Officer. A commission is handed down
>from Congress (in a democracy) or the Crown (in a monarchy), while a
>warrant is handed down from the service itself. Warrant officers rank
>below commissioned officers but above non-commisioned officers, who are
>enlisted persons with administrative powers. There are four Warrant ranks,
>which are the same for all services:
>
>W-1 = Warrant Officer
>
>W-2 = Chief Warrant Officer
>
>W-3 = Chief Warrant Officer
>
>W-4 = Chief Warrant Officer
>
>As you can see, the distinction among these ranks is chiefly one of
>paygrade, as there's really only one slot to fill between the highest
>non-com and the lowest commissioned officer. It's the same slot filled by
>the cadet or midshipman, but with a veteran, usually former enlisted or
>non-com, instead of a novice.
In the Imperial Japan's Navy and Army, warrant officers were called jun-i
($B=Z0S(J), which inspired the unique junsa ($B=Z:4(J) seen in Gundam Wing. The
modern Japanese Self Defense Force uses junrikui ($B=ZN&0S(J), junkaii
($B=Z3$0S(J), and junkuui ($B=Z6u0S(J) for warrant officers in the ground,
maritime, and air branches respectively.
The Japanese translations of the American warrant officer ranks are jun-i
and joukyuu jun-i ($B>e5i=`0S(J, chief warrant officer) -- except it can also
be translated as heisouchou ($BJ<AbD9(J), which happens to be one way to
translate chief petty officer. ^^; For better or worse, there isn't
necessarily a one-to-one correlation between two rank systems of different
countries, much less different langauges and different eras.
Egan Loo
eganloo@anime.net
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