Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!

[Robbie8666]

[quote author=fazersharp link=topic=17546.msg275444#msg275444 date=1518517872]
Another one - the army and when ranks retire they are always referred to as "Colonel Mustard-retired"  "wing Commander Bird - retired"

How far down the ranks does that go. Are there any "Private Tommy Atkins-retired"?
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I could be wrong. (often am!), but I thought it was that you had to have held a field rank i.e Major or above (or equivalent i.e Lt Commander / Sqn Ldr) if it was Captain RN that's equivalent to Colonel /Group Captain!

most of us rank & file just use Veteran!