Editing Talk:Captain (armed forces) (section)

== A land Captain on a naval ship ==

I've read in a Heinlin book that when a land Captain boards a naval ship, then the sailors refer to him as Major (a rank higher than Captain), because there can be only one Captain in a ship, and that's the naval Captain.[[User:Sandman2007|Sandman2007]] ([[User talk:Sandman2007|talk]]) 09:28, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

:Interesting. Which book? [[User:Pdfpdf|Pdfpdf]] ([[User talk:Pdfpdf|talk]]) 11:57, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
:: I think it was Space Troopers. 
:: "As a matter of etiquette in the U.S. Navy there is only one captain aboard a vessel. If a Marine Corps captain is at the officer's mess, he or she is given the courtesy title of major to be differentiated from the head of the ship." From: [[Captain (naval)]].     [[User:Sandman2007|Sandman2007]] ([[User talk:Sandman2007|talk]]) 18:20, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

::: It was ''Starship Troopers'', yes, and it seems to be fairly close to universal in fiction and science fiction, but I'm playing pluperfect hell trying to source it in real life.  --[[User:Baylink|Baylink]] ([[User talk:Baylink|talk]]) 03:24, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
::::Found two US Navy references that say that captains should be addressed as captains. See references in [[Captain (naval)]]. [[User:Sandman2007|Sandman2007]] ([[User talk:Sandman2007|talk]]) 15:06, 21 July 2009 (UTC)