[identity profile] 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.

[identity profile] nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com) 2013-05-30 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] pauldormer.livejournal.com 2013-05-31 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, retired Colonels have a similar reputation.