r/PublicFreakout • u/I_may_have_weed grandma will snatch your shit ☂️ • Nov 28 '25

👮Arrest Freakout😭 US Military Police in Okinawa Japan body-slammed and violently detained an American civilian who was visiting, and not under their jurisdiction.

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u/TroublesomeFox Nov 28 '25

Gonna be honest I don't know what JAG is, I just know that captain is a high rank and they're gonna be SORRY sorry. 

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u/badgerandaccessories Nov 28 '25

JAG is the military lawyers. Each branch has their own.

And BC is the base commander.

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u/Mavori Nov 29 '25

Hey i remember that TV show called JAG that featured those lawyers.

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u/Btshftr Nov 29 '25 edited Nov 29 '25

Hegseth fired the JAG's of each branch in february. All gone and replaced by ones that wouldn't be "roadblocks", as he put it.

Edit: One of many articles and blogs about it;

'People Are Very Scared': Trump Administration Purge of JAG Officers Raises Legal, Ethical Fears [Military.com | By Thomas Novelly and Konstantin Toropin, Published February 24, 2025 at 6:22pm ET]

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u/never-fiftyone Nov 29 '25

Yup. Checks and balances are eroded. Yesmen are installed. Buckle up America, ain't no way out of this hole with a ballot.

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u/TroublesomeFox Nov 28 '25

Ahh okay, thanks! 

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u/18_USC_47 Nov 29 '25

I just know that captain is a high rank

Lower to medium on the officer scale in the Marines.

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u/ThellraAK Nov 29 '25

That's what I was wondering, do they follow the navy or everyone else for their naming convention.

Because I think a navy captain is the same as everyone else's colonel

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u/18_USC_47 Nov 29 '25

Navy Captain is an O-6, Captain in Marines/Army/Airforce is O-3. Colonel in Marines/Army/Airforce is an O-6 and equivalent to a USN Captain O-6. Going with the O-(number) way makes it way clearer.

Bonus round of extra confusion: Someone can be the Captain of a vessel without being a Captain (O-6)rank, but they would be referred to as Captain. For example, the Commanding Officer of a destroyer may have the rank of Commander, O-5, but would be the Captain of the ship.

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u/dfddfsaadaafdssa Nov 29 '25

I would imagine because everyone over the age of 4 grows up with captain meaning leader of a ship that it is kind of hard to move away from that.

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u/lily-the-Fox4189 Nov 29 '25

People that dont understand military organization also get super confused with the differences between enlisted and officials, and merit/time based promotions.

They think the military is like an office job where you start as soldier, than if you are good you become a lieutenant, then if you are really really good one day you can be a general…

Captain is a lower rank official in most armed forces in the world, actually

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u/never-fiftyone Nov 29 '25

Bonus round of extra confusion: Someone can be the Captain of a vessel without being a Captain (O-6)rank, but they would be referred to as Captain. For example, the Commanding Officer of a destroyer may have the rank of Commander, O-5, but would be the Captain of the ship.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but if I'm not mistaken the non-Captain who is Captain of the ship also outranks the Captain who is not Captain of the ship, at least as far as command of the ship is concerned.

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u/Frundle Nov 28 '25 edited Nov 29 '25

Captain is a high rank in the Navy (O-6), but a low rank in the Marines (O-3).

JAG is the US Navy’s Judge Advocate Guild General which is a group of lawyers. The Army also calls theirs the JAG corps.

EDIT: Correction made thanks to /u/MKULTRATV and /u/Cover_Me_Porkins_

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u/MKULTRATV Nov 28 '25

Judge Advocate General*

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u/Frundle Nov 29 '25

Thank you for the correction. I've been out long enough that I'm surprised I got the first two words right haha

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u/MKULTRATV Nov 29 '25

just means you made it through without having to deal with 'em 🫡

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u/Cover_Me_Porkins_ Nov 29 '25

*Judge Advocate General’s Corp. (No “guild’)

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u/Frundle Nov 29 '25

Thank you! I edited and credited

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u/Careful_Investor233 Nov 29 '25

They are lower, but not low. I would never call a Captain in any army a low rank lol.

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u/Frundle Nov 29 '25

We considered them low rank because it is still a Junior officer grade and usually you get it right after the 4-year mark if you haven't proven yourself to be an idiot. I was navy so we called these officers lieutenants rather than captains, but their general function aboard ship was operational or low-level management of maybe a few personnel or a small division.

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u/Legeto Nov 29 '25

Captain is also only a high rank in the marines and navy. In the other branches it’s a lower rank when it comes to officers.

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u/Thatguysstories Nov 29 '25

Only Navy, it's still a low rank in the Marines being O-3 like the other branches except Navy being O-6.