Ian Moffat

This show has potential but to maintain interest it has to be accurate when referring to military ranks. The US Marine Corps is part of the US Navy and thus this show should know and reflect the correct ranks of all concerned. The defendant was referred to as commander but was wearing the uniform of a USN lieutenant ( two ranks lower than a commander). His uniform should have had three gold stripes on the sleeve, not two. The USN does, as a courtesy, call lieutenant commanders ‘commander’ in conversation, but that would still require that the defendant’s uniform have two thick stripes with a thin stripe between them on his sleeve. Notwithstanding, as the position held by the defendant was base surgeon his rank would have been a full commander which requires three stripes.