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Old 08-06-2018, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Mortal1 View Post
A Colonel in the Marine Corps is called a Colonel(or bird colonel)(ask my father). A captain in the Corps is sometimes called skipper(not because of being the skipper of a craft, but because he's the skipper of a company). The captain of a ship(while at times is a Lt. Cmdr)is called skipper.
I'm guessing that you didn't take a good look at the list.