"Stanowiska Sztabowe" = "Staff positions" "Pomocnik Dowodcy ds. Podoficerow" = "Assistant to the Commander for matters regarding NCO's" "Szczebel Kompanii" = "Company level" "d-ca druzyny" (d-ca = dowódca) = "squad commander&...

Hi! I've noticed your page a couple of months ago and I really like it. Very good content, and easy to find info. But I also noted resently that you have the old naval rank badges for sweden, I don't know if anyone has mentioned it. Anyway, the numbers of bars have been revised to the international...

As far as I know, in Israel a common way of addressing ones commanding officers is ha'mefaket (literally the commander; another, not literally, translation could perhaps be my commander). I don't know if this only applies to enlisted men addressing their commissioned officers. Nati - help! :)

In the Swedish Defence Forces (this is the official name of the Swedish armed forces, in Swedish Försvarsmakten), only rank names are used for addressing each other in official situations. Like a private would call a captain simply "captain"? No Mr. or something? Correct. The rank name it...

In the Swedish Defence Forces (this is the official name of the Swedish armed forces, in Swedish Försvarsmakten), only rank names are used for addressing each other in official situations.

I have a feeling that the creator of Esperanto, the Polish born Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (1859-1917), at least to some extent was influenced by the Polish rank names. The ranks of subleŭtenanto and subkolonelo sound for me as litteraly translations of Polish podporucznik and podpulkownik : porucznik ...

I have a feeling that the creator of Esperanto, the Polish born Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (1859-1917), at least to some extent was influenced by the Polish rank names. The ranks of subleŭtenanto and subkolonelo sound for me as litteraly translations of Polish podporucznik and podpulkownik : porucznik (...

I guess the order of titles before a name differs from country to country and from language to language. I suppose the above "system" is valid for the UK. In other language traditions this order may be quite different. Here an example of Polish titles, or rather what I call Polish title-m...

First, how does one order titles before a name. These include ranks, doctorates, religious titles, peerages, honourifics, etc. What is the general rule to follow when someone has many different titles, such as Dr., Colonel, and Honourable? In the example you give, he'd be Colonel The Hon John Smith...