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The following table shows the ranks used in the United States Navy. The order of rank is from lowest to highest rank.

Rank	Collar	Sleeve	Pay Grade	Abbreviation	Enlisted/Officer
Seaman Recruit	None	None	E-1	SR	Enlisted
Seaman Apprentice	None		E-2	SA	Enlisted
Seaman	None		E-3	SN	Enlisted
Petty Officer Third Class	None		E-4	PO3	Enlisted
Petty Officer Second Class	None		E-5	PO2	Enlisted
Petty Officer First Class	None		E-6	PO1	Enlisted
Chief Petty Officer			E-7	CPO	Enlisted
Senior Chief Petty Officer			E-8	SCPO	Enlisted
Master Chief Petty Officer			E-9	MCPO	Enlisted
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy			E-9	MCPON	Enlisted
Chief Warrant Officer			W-2	CWO2	Warrant Officer
Chief Warrant Officer			W-3	CWO3	Warrant Officer
Chief Warrant Officer			W-4	CWO4	Warrant Officer
Chief Warrant Officer			W-5	CWO5	Warrant Officer
Ensign			O-1	ENS	Officer
Lieutenant Junior Grade			O-2	LTJG	Officer
Lieutenant			O-3	LT	Officer
Lieutenant Commander			O-4	LDCR	Officer
Commander			O-5	CDR	Officer
Captain			O-6	CAPT	Officer
Rear Admiral (lower half)			O-7	RDML	Officer
Rear Admiral (upper half)			O-8	RADM	Officer
Vice Admiral			O-9	VADM	Officer
Admiral			O-10	ADM	Officer
Fleet Admiral (for War time only)			Special	FADM	Officer

Rank Insignia and descriptions are from the following two wikipedia pages: Enlisted - Officers

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Marshal of the Soviet Union (full uniform)
From: RussianLegacy.com

I found out that there is actually a board game based on the book Red Storm Rising. I had a quick look and it seems like a pretty cool game.

You can find the link here: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/3707

Pretty cool.

Mike.

Imagine this scenario:

You are the proud owner of a new iPod Touch or iPhone and downloaded an audio book from Audible.com to listen too. Lets say you downloaded a fictional novel and the story talks about fighter pilots and their planes.

So you are happily listening along and the story talks about an F-14 fighter plane taking off from an aircraft carrier, after the sentence ends the audio player pauses. You look at the screen of your audio player and there is a button that indicates a video is available, you press the button. After you press the button the audio player displays a movie of an F-14 fighter plane taking off from, you guessed it, an aircraft carrier.

How cool would that be?

Of course if you do not press the button the story will just continue for your listening pleasures.Can you imagine if this technology was added to a download of Dan Brown’s

the Da Vinci Code

You would be able to see a clear picture of the Mona Lisa or the last supper, track the path the two main characters travel on Google maps, reference material from the Knights Templar, etc.It is almost like an interactive game.. or interactive TV…

just some ideas…

- mike

I was looking at the Kindle on the Amazon website and this struck me as cool; what if the Kindle or any other e-book reader was capable of displaying Google maps. Meaning that when you read your book on the Kindle and on one of the pages a reference is made to a location on earth or mars or somewhere in space, you can then highlight that reference and display it in Google maps.

Cool? I think so…

- Mike

I have created a google map that follows the events that can be traced to a location in a Google Map. Hopefully I can update this map often as I re-read the chapters of Red Storm Rising.I am still tweaking the design a bit as I’m learning more and more about google maps, the following website helped me enormously: http://econym.googlepages.com/index.htm and of course google map API website as well.You can click here to view the page.Let me know what you think or give me any suggestions at highcarbbooks@gmail.com -Mike

I have added a link to my Amazon Astore.

The astore is a convenient way for me to show you all the books I have read and/or own. If you happen to be interested in one of the books you can actually purchase them straight from the aStore. It might also show you some books you haven’t read but could be a very interesting read.
Enjoy your book exploring!

- Mike