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Also, the Colonel is wearing a (deformed) black beret instead of the Ranger tan.

Chaindive tv tropes Patch#

He immediately recognizes the Colonel as an army ranger, presumably due to the 75th Ranger patch on his right shoulder. A Ranger Colonel shows up to recruit Booth to train soldiers in Afghanistan.

His insignia is, however, incorrect: Brigadier-General during WWI wore a crossed baton and sword (similar to other generals, but without any crowns or stars above). The rank title is in fact correct for the era (it's currently just Brigadier, without the hyphened General, in the British Army).

Blackadder Goes Forth, whilst generally fairly accurate on many uniform and insignia aspects (excepting the fact they are dressed perfectly accurately for 1914, not 1917!), has an easily missed error in the form of Brigadier-General Sir Bernard Proudfoot-Smith.

At the end of a radio transmission between Batman and Robin, Batman (who is a duly deputized officer of the law and should know better) tells Robin "Over and out".

Batman (1966) episode ""He Meets His Match, the Grisly Ghoul".

However, General William Hague and Major Ed Ryan are both apparently naval officers and wear blue, whereas the rest of the cast follow the standard NATO naval rank system. The uniforms in the series are pretty clear: blue for naval personnel, gray for security, olive drab for ground forces.

The series has some problems with Earthforce naval ranks.

The series tends to portray "cruisers" as midsize warships and "destroyers" as large warships, in a reverse of historical norms.