Talk:Corporal

message: In documentaries and news items about the Canadian armed forces the recruits always address their drill instructors thus, "Yes, Master Corporal!"  So, what is a Master Corporal?  Is it the same as other armed forces' Corporal?
*It's a rank between corporal and sergeant, wearing a maple leaf above two chevrons. However, the Canadians no longer have lance-corporals, so I assume it fills a similar slot to corporal in the British Army and the Canadian corporal fills a similar slot to lance-corporal. In NATO terms it ranks as OR-5, the same as a sergeant with less than three years seniority. -- Necrothesp 13:13, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Master Corporal 

message: Outside of an organisation, to what extent can you call someone 'Corporal' (e.g Cpl J Brown instead of Mr J Brown)?
:Well, in the UK it would never be done. All ranks lower than captain are addressed as "Mr" outside the service environment (and subalterns and warrant officers are addressed as "Mr" even within it). It is also, incidentally, considered bad form for retired service personnel to continue to use their rank if it was lower than major (or equivalent). I don't know about the rules elsewhere. -- Necrothesp 19:11, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calling someone Corporal 

message: Corporal is the first rank in the NCO cadre, the first rank empowered to issue an order, and I can tell you they routinely exercise that power, albeit only over privates. How else, f'r'instance, is a radio detachment commander going to command his detachment? SigPig 20:15, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corporals and commands 

message: : I'm not very common to German military, but there definitly does not exist any rank called "Oberstabsgefreiter". That should be changed. --M9IN0G 18:17, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  There is, it was introduced 7. Februar 1996! 88.77.208.38 (talk) 10:00, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: Germany section 

message: I think there should be a table at the top of other US ranks, and not just those of the British military. Or abolished completely. There is a tremendous number of Americans on this site (including myself) and the whole page is about international ranks, anyways. Does anyone else agree?Zoke (talk) 00:55, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The table was originally meant to show the enlgish language variant of ranks held internationally, such as Captain Colonel and Admiral but over time prople have wanted to put ranks inbetween which is not consistent with every country. The Air Force one was inevitably going to be bias to UK/Coommonwealth forces as the US and many other nations simply use Army Ranks. Dainamo (talk) 18:06, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  US Table at Top? 

message: Oh dear..... "Corporals are sergeants"? NCOs perhaps? And the rank is being both phased out and reintroduced? I think this section needs to be looked at by someone with a clear grasp of the situation in the Danish forces. Pete Fenelon (talk) 17:40, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Denmark 

message: The section that attempts to illustrate the steps taken for a corporal to be advanced to sergeant has abreviations in it that I'm not sure of.  I've served with Marines all throughout my service career and can guess at most of them, but I'm sure that most readers of the article would not be familiar with the military jargon.  Is an explaination of how one is advanced to sergeant even necessary in the article about corporals?  Perhaps that information should go to an article on Marine Corps advancement procedure or be added to the Marine Corps article itself. Cuprum17 (talk) 23:58, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marine Corps Corporal Section Jargon 

message: * Napoleon Bonaparte and Benito Mussolini were corporals at one time.  The first was nicknamed "The Little Corporal". Although Adolf Hitler has often been referred to as a "corporal" in English, his :actual rank, Gefreiter, was more equivalent to senior private; he was never a corporal (Unteroffizier).
* A Corporalship or Corporal's guard is a name for a small band of followers based on the small amount of soldiers directly led by a corporal.
* In the movie Aliens, after the death of Sargeant Apone and a concussion suffered by Lieutenant Goreman, Corporal Hicks takes command, where he is referred to as a "grunt".
* In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, there is a small, unpleasant Corporal named Nobby Nobbs. A running joke in the books is that he is so small and unpleasant that it is disputed whether or not he is human.
Can anyone give me a good reason not to nuke this section? Wardog (talk) 23:53, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corporals in popular culture 

message: Well, greetings fellow old-timer (Foofbun)! I haven't heard (or seen) anyone use the expression "hard 5 (five)" to refer to a "buck" sergeant (E-5) in many decades, and since all Specialist Fives (SP5) were converted to Sergeant (SGT) circa 1978, I'm sure that most readers today won't know what that means. Anyway, since demotions are thankfully rare, and most certainly a negative action, not normally associated with a soldier's progression (or lack thereof) in his (I know there are female soldiers, and they're no longer called WACs, but the overwhelming majority of soldiers are still armed below the belt and carry a basic load of two rounds) career, I believe this addition is unnecessary. Besides, it would only occur through Article 15 or Courts Martial proceedings, anyway. I recommend this edit be reverted.CobraDragoon (talk) 22:08, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demotion to Corporal from Sergeant 

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