What Ship Could a Commander Command?

[Dan Stack]

I believe the carrier Nimitz has a captain as her exec.

[Evan van Eyk]

Yes I think it was the Nimitz

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[spyone]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Evan van Eyk:

Second you are again wrong, there are Admirals who commandeer ships. There were Russian ships, where bith CO and XO were Admirals. ( Heavy Cruisers ).
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Which just might be part of the reason that I specified my comments about Admirals not commanding ships as being about the US Navy.

Ya think?

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[StyroFoam Man]

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[Evan van Eyk]

Might be, but after all we are talking about Star Trek and I only wanted to show that it is not impossible to have Admirals as simple COs/ XOs of large ships.

And after all I missed the note: US Navy only

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[This message has been edited by Evan van Eyk (edited 06-16-2001).]

[spyone]

Sorry. My hackles were up and I overreacted.

Truly, even shortly after I posted it I realized it seemed more hostile than I felt.

Pretend there's a smiley after the "Ya think?". Preferably a winking one. (I'm not into revisionist history, so I'm not going to change it. I made a mistake.)

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You're a Starfleet Officer. "Weird" is part of the job.

[Evan van Eyk]

OK, hust wanted to make my point and share my experiences.

If I sounded angry or so, the reason is probably that I am no native-speaker and so am not that eloquent

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[This message has been edited by Evan van Eyk (edited 06-17-2001).]

[spyone]

Evan, you did fine. It was _I_ who gave offense.

Now, let's all quit apologizing before it becomes silly.

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[This message has been edited by spyone (edited 06-18-2001).]

[Grandmaster]

In the navy, it is fairly common for the c/os of smaller frigates and destroyers to be Comamnders. They are usually referred to as "skipper" instead of captain as rule of thumb.