Would people with military experience please comment.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The General's Daughter
trek_af_12 — 14 years ago(July 28, 2011 02:03 AM)
Would people with military experience please comment.
I cannot imagine an officer, let alone a female officer, changing a tire for a big hulking enlisted man, while that enlisted man stands there helplessly looking on. -
movie_fan59 — 14 years ago(September 09, 2011 03:57 PM)
I was an enlisted man and if an officer wanted to change my car's tire I wouldn't have argued with her.
Remember, he was so clueless (or ill equipped if you prefer) he was trying to remove the lug nuts with a pair of pliers. -
ElizaB27 — 13 years ago(January 09, 2013 06:36 PM)
I was in the Marines and there were some nice officers willing to stop and help a fellow Marine in need, regardless of gender. It was just Marines taking care of Marines.
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." -Gandalf the Grey -
movies789 — 9 years ago(August 16, 2016 02:52 AM)
He wasn't a big, hulking enlisted man; he was a big, hulking chief warrant officer. As a captain, she was a commissioned officer. Hence, they were both officers - roughly equivalent in social standing, though the captain outranked the chief warrant officer.
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movies789 — 9 years ago(November 17, 2016 08:21 AM)
There are no equivalencies. All commissioned officers outrank all warrant officers, just as all warrant officers outrank all noncommissioned officers. That said, a 2nd lieutenant would be pretty silly to fail to show deference and respect to a chief warrant officer (or a senior NCO), and would risk being deftly cut-down and embarrassed in front of the troops, and/or reported (officially or informally) to his senior commander. And he wouldn't be likely to repeat his mistake.