(Wait - the top slot on the SDF is also in command of three ARMORs as well, so it should be commodore or admiral, no? Yes, Global was a bigger wig than he let on, but I'd expect a clear chain of command to be laid out from the beginning, and as we've noted an ARMOR alone is bigger than any RL carrier. IIRC a carrier is an Admiral's slot IRL)
FYI -- Naval protocols are such that the person in command of a ship is ALWAYS called Captain, reguardless of his actual rank. In todays navies, there is a captain for the carrier, who actually commands the carrier itself. The admiral commands the battle group as a whole, defining missions, objectives, and general posture, etc.
So, this gives you two options. First would be that Gloval/Propovesky(?) actually IS an Admiral, but since he is in direct command of sdf-1, he would still be addressed as Captian. The second would be that there originally was an Admiral for the prospective battle group, but he was still on the ground officiating, or otherwise dies in the inital incidents.
"I was an Otaku before those kids came along and changed the meaning of the word."
-- HM "Howling Mad" Wilson to more than one team-mate.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
FYI -- Naval protocols are such that the person in command of a ship is ALWAYS called Captain, reguardless of his actual rank. In todays navies, there is a captain for the carrier, who actually commands the carrier itself. The admiral commands the battle group as a whole, defining missions, objectives, and general posture, etc.
So, this gives you two options. First would be that Gloval/Propovesky(?) actually IS an Admiral, but since he is in direct command of sdf-1, he would still be addressed as Captian. The second would be that there originally was an Admiral for the prospective battle group, but he was still on the ground officiating, or otherwise dies in the inital incidents.
"I was an Otaku before those kids came along and changed the meaning of the word."
-- HM "Howling Mad" Wilson to more than one team-mate.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children