Second Lieutenant (IA)
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The rank of Second Lieutenant (O1) is the commissioned officer rank in the Imperial Army that is held by officers that are being given on-the-job training in the practicalities of the role of Officer.
Description (Specifications)
The rank of Second Lieutenant (O1) is the commissioned officer rank in the Imperial Army that is held by officers that are being given on-the-job training in the practicalities of the role of Officer.
- The equivalent rank in the Imperial Army Close Orbit and Airspace Control Command is Pilot Officer.
- The equivalent rank in the Imperial Army Nautical Force Command is Ensign.
The equivalent rank in other services are:
Second Lieutenant may also be known as:
- Ensign: because of the historic role of carrying the unit's flag (and defending it to the death)
- Shavetail: {Generally disparaging} because of the historic habit of shaving the tails of newly broken-in pack animals called Mules.
History & Background (Dossier)
The term Lieutenant is indicative of this rank being derived from the role of being the deputy commander of a Company under a Captain.
A Second Lieutenant is aspirant to that exalted position, and is considered to still be under on-the-job training.
References & Contributors (Sources)
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This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Lieutenant. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.
- Douglas E. Berry. Ground Forces (Steve Jackson Games, 2000), 51.
- Gareth Hanrahan. Core Rulebook (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), 12.
- Collated by: BackworldTraveller