The equivalent of a pastor of a local church is a "Lieutenant" or a "Captain" and you actually literally address them as "Captain" and if you're a member you salute them and say "Yes sir" and whatnot I guess when they were founded "stolen valor" wasn't the same issue it is now
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There's a lot of old-timey stuff like that I guess, like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are called that because they were initially pretending to be child soldiers (boys inspired by Baden-Powell's memoir about the "Scouting" lifestyle of the British expeditionary forces)
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It's fun to play games. When I was in the American Occupation Army of the Two Rivers, we used to play all sorts of grabass fuckery
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And people have been pointing out how weird it all was for a long time. Like, George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara" came out over a century ago.
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Aren't the Knights of Columbus pretty much this too
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Lots of random organizations use "knights" or "warriors" or "soldiers" to describe themselves, but the Salvation Army and the Scouts are the ones who take it as far as everyone wearing uniforms and having ranks, IIRC
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I feel like this dedicated military aesthetic is kind of a reach for an organization most famous for their panhandling Santas
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