From: ab.chaplin@yourfinger.rogers.com   
      
   alberthead62@gmail.com wrote in   
   news:c39d9f46-a1b2-458c-a839-c9d9c00fb788@googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Thursday, December 30, 1999 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, SLAPPS wrote:   
   >> The question I have to members of this group is;   
   >> Is there still a "civilian equivalence"  to military ranks?   
   >> I can remember a civilian employee in DND stating that his status was   
   >> equ   
   > al   
   >> to that of a Capt.  If this is the case, where is it written?   
   >   
   > There is a loose equivalency. For instance, LCols are considered   
   > "execs" and the equiv of an exec 1 in the PSoC. When you get into   
   > strategic professional studies, such as JCSP, CSSP, NSP, etc, ou will   
   > frequently find senior PSoC managers or execs on them. For a civ to say   
   > they have the equiv of a Maj/Col, etc., is nonsense and say rather too   
   > much about their character. The biggest thing to understand is that the   
   > civs have usually never been in uniform and are essentially glorified   
   > paper shufflers. They donlt have much to say in an auditorium full of   
   > senior military officers with decades of leaderrshp and multiple tours   
   > under their belts.   
      
   Lieutenant-colonels are not the equivalent of EX1s, those are colonels. That   
   said, "For a civ to say they have the equiv of a Maj/Col, etc., is   
   nonsense..." is essentially correct. That civvy might work in the   
   "Directorate of Paper Clip Attrition Control" as its 2-2 staff officer, but   
   he or she is still a snuffy civvy.   
      
   I respond as the former DLSP 3-2 and DLFS 2-3. No, I was not a civvy at the   
   time, I was the Land Staff's PY or FTE headhunter, and the last staff   
   officer you ever wanted to have visit your cubicle.   
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   Andrew Chaplin   
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