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The Queen, Honorary Air Commodore, meets station personnel during a visit to RAF Marham, Norfolk, 1 February 2012.
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I have struggled for most of the past twenty four hours about posting that photo.
The anguish in my mind is because of the time-traveler effect that I am aware of constantly every moment of every one of my days.
If I make a reference to something that becomes part of my time-traveler journal then that means I am affecting the information I am recording.
I create the notion. If a notion is attributed to someone else as a reference in my time-travel journal but if I time-travel that notion to a date that is before the notion's date then how can that notion be attributed to the person in reference?
So anyway, I have been trying to think less about what I see today and to describe here how what I see makes me feel.
One other motivating factor in making this observation is about another dream I had last night. In that dream I clearly - very clearly - saw myself wearing the uniform of a United States Navy Fleet Admiral. Much of that dream has faded now but I still have an emotional attachment to it. I saw myself in what I would think later during the day while awake was a setting similar to a large shopping mall that most people in the United States would be familiar with but I did not make that association until I had been awake for a while. In the dream, I was wearing that uniform and I went somewhere in that large open area indoors to set down and a person who seemed to be a person confined to a wheelchair showed up not long after and he spoke to me but I cannot recall any details about that dialog. I also think I would know who was that specific person if certain were presented to me in my waking state but as for now I have now idea who that was. He was not falling for it, though. He knew I was not a United States Navy Fleet Admiral and that seemed to be the end of the dream sequence. I was left with the sense, either while sleeping during the dream or after waking up, I don't recall which one, that I knew I was trying to fool him into thinking I was Thomas Reagan, my biological brother, and that was my goal.
After that, I was outside of that shopping mall and I was wearing the uniform of the United States Marine Corps but I was wearing the uniform of a Staff Sergeant of the United States Marine Corps. The rank of Staff Sergeant of the United States Marine Corps has a paygrade of E-6 and the highest paygrade that my artificial memory records I ever held in the United States Navy is E-5.
In my dream, I could clearly see I was wearing the insignia of a Staff Sergeant of the United States Marine Corps in a service uniform.
From there I walked to my automobile and I gave a lot of attention during the dream to the keys I had with me as I tried to start the engine of the automobile. I forget some of the details now or a lot of the details now but what I remember is that I was focused on two different key types. One key type was for the car. The other key type was for my apartment. Both key types would turn over the engine but only one key type would cause the engine to start.
Another confusing part was that I seemed to be driving the car backwards up a hill. I couldn't get the engine started, although that seems to be where I had become the "Alonzo Solace" character in civilian clothing, so I was then, for some reason, going backwards up a hill, and I steered the car a long ways going backwards up the hill and there was several groups waging gunfire against me and I was trying to take cover inside the car as I traveled backwards up the hill. The dream seems to have ended at that point. I don't recall precisely when I had that dream. I think I had that dream and then woke up and then I went back to sleep and I often wake up several times during the night and get up out of bed. I usually have get up and walk into the living room and look around.
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Air commodore (Air Cdre in the RAF and IAF, AIRCDRE in the RNZAF and RAAF, formerly A/C in the RCAF) is a one-star rank and the most junior of the air-officer ranks which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force. The rank is also used by the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence and it is sometimes used as the English translation of an equivalent rank in countries which have a non-English air force-specific rank structure.
In the present-day RAF, air commodores typically hold senior appointments within groups, acting directly in support of the air officer commanding. However, during the inter-war period, and in the case of the contemporary No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group, the air officer commanding held or holds air commodore rank.
Honorary air commodores, air commodores-in-chief and air commandants
The Queen may appoint honorary air commodores for RAF flying squadrons and stations. For example, Prince Charles is RAF Valley's honorary air commodore and Winston Churchill was 615 Squadron's honorary air commodore. As the title suggests, this is an honorary position bestowed by the Queen and it does not grant the recipient command of a unit or formation. It is designed to strengthen the bond between the military unit and the individual and promote the role of the air force amongst the public.
Serving officers, such as Prince Harry and Prince William, may be granted an equivalent appointment to the honorary rank. In such cases the individual is made an honorary air commandant and they retain their regular rank.
Larger air force organisations or formations may be honoured by having an air commodore-in-chief appointed in their name. These appointments are rare and to date have been reserved for senior members of the Royal Family. Air commodore-in-chief is not a rank and such an appointment does not convey the rank of air commodore upon the recipient.
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Lieutenant general (United States)
In the United States Army, the United States Air Force and the United States Marine Corps, lieutenant general (abbreviated Lt Gen in the Air Force, LtGen in the Marine Corps and LTG in the Army) is a three-star general officer rank, with the pay grade of O-9. Lieutenant general ranks above major general and below general. Lieutenant general is equivalent to the rank of vice admiral in the other uniformed services.
Appointment and tour length
The three-star grade goes hand-in-hand with the position of office to which it is linked, so the rank is temporary. Officers may only achieve three-star grade if they are appointed to positions that require the officer to hold such a rank. Their rank expires with the expiration of their term of office
Some statutory limits under the U.S. Code can be waived in times of national emergency or war.
Modern use
An Army or Marine Corps lieutenant general typically commands a corps-sized unit (20,000 to 45,000 soldiers), while an Air Force lieutenant general commands a large Numbered Air Force consisting of several wings. Additionally, lieutenant generals of all services serve as high-level staff officers at various major command headquarters and The Pentagon, often as the heads of their departments.
After the close of the Second World War, generals were normally promoted permanently to brigadier general and major general, with temporary promotions to lieutenant general and general to fill senior positions as needed. In theory, a general vacates their three or four-star rank at termination of their assignment unless placed in an equal ranking billet. Douglas MacArthur, who served as four-star general and Army Chief of Staff, reverted to two stars after his CoS tour ended but chose to stay on active duty in the United States Army.
The practice of using lieutenant general and general grades as a temporary rank continues, with the President and the Department of Defense creating temporary or indefinite three and four-star assignments, with fixed term of office, with the approval of the Senate. Even with the temporary status, such officers are also almost always granted permanent retirement in the last grade they held with the satisfactory completion of at least two or three years in grade.
