Talk:Jackel Stenmard/@comment-33909829-20151220011346

Recommend removing "MIDSHIPMEN" from your ranking history. As I said, RESEARCH my friend. Enlisted who climb the rank structure prior to going comissioned do not recieve appointment as a midshipmen (generally).

In the United States Navy, comissioned officers can occur several ways (you'll see how this ties into this).

1) Be prior enlisted, and get accepted to pick up a warfare designator to become a officer, achieving O1 or W2 (SKIPPING MIDSHIPMAN). This can be in the form as  (about to drop a bunch of terms you should also research)  a officer of the line (or any other corp), limited duty officer, or as a warrant officer.

2) SCHOOL (via ROTC granted colleges OR the Naval Academy). These officers in training are required to bare the title MIDSHIPMAN as theyre technicly not comissioned officers of the Navy. Sure there is a history behind mid rooted in some dead tradition, but I gurantee you will NEVER see somebody who climbs from the bottom to the top of the enlisted chain to admiral carry the title of midshipman as they would be to OLD to be eligable for school options.