Exactly. This is the Captain America that literally reports to the US Govt
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
The DoD, so presumably answers to the military, in whatever specialist branch is superheroics.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @jmarquiso and
Ranks are... complicated and don't necessarily mean what people think I don't think it'd be implausible for someone in Captain America's unique situation to have a higher rank than he does but I don't think literally being a captain is unrealistic either
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Officially, the rank of captain is the highest company officer rank, the highest rank you could expect to be giving orders to enlisted troops as part of their regular duties The jump from captain to major is the jump from company officer to field officer
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Field officers are battalion-level command, most of their orders are given to company officers, not directly to enlisted men It's at the stage where you're clearly more "administrator" than "fighter", your job is to see the big picture
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
I mean, this isn't a hard-and-fast rule People with special jobs often get ranks to match, because they need to give orders and be deferred to in the course of their duties (hence medical officers like Hawkeye Pierce and Hot Lips Houlihan get lofty ranks like Captain and Major)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
And brevet promotions used to be far more common in the past (the equivalent of an honorary doctorate), someone having a higher rank than their actual operational rank basically as an extra-special medal (The US military has avoided doing this since the Civil War though)
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Like the Nazi sniper dude in Enemy at the Gates having been breveted as a major just because he's killed so many people Which, as a result, leads to his title just being "the Major", spoken with dread and awe (because no actual major should be doing his job)
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