The U.S. Navy’s rank and rate structure isn’t easy to understand when you grow up in a different branch of the U.S. military. For example, a captain in the Navy is not the same as a captain in the ...
Class rank is a system that ranks students based on their cumulative grade point average. Typically, it utilizes the weighted GPA that takes the difficulty of the classes into account in addition to ...
When Navy legend and computer programming pioneer Grace Hopper was promoted to O-7 in 1982, she pinned on the one-star insignia and became Commodore Hopper. If she had been promoted just a few years ...