I must admit that I at first read that as a problem involving English military people. We don't major at UK universities, we read a subject, and retired English majors are known to be reactionary, writing incensed letters to newspapers. (I'm sure disgusted of Tunbridge Wells was a retired major.)
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seth ellis (from livejournal.com)2013-05-30 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
English majors are terrible, but captains and colonels are all right. It's a phase they go through, like teething.
It's quite understandable as a consequence of how Western militaries are organized. A captain leads a company of soldiers. A colonel leads a battalion or regiment of soldiers. A major leads an orderly. And nowadays sometimes not even that, what with the rise of email and word processing.
This means that an officer that retires as a major is likely to be disgruntled at his fate.
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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2013-05-30 12:34 am
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This means that an officer that retires as a major is likely to be disgruntled at his fate.
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