Originally Posted by tonyg
But Col West's rank of doesn't really show if he is a marine, army soldier, Military Operations Command (MACO), or a southern gentleman (with or without a Fried Chicken franchise). Yeah, there were various ideas over what he was supposed to be. He must be someoneone high up though, if he has direct access to the President. That is unless he is someone's derranged realtive who put on a starfleet uniform, calls himself "Col. West" and get to barge in on the President with his outrageous fantassis (Arsenic and Old Lace).