what abour retired and current US armed forces officers? can they join CAP at an advanced rank?
Why would someone not want to be a CAP Officer? What advantages are there for not being one, or what disadvantages exist in being one that somebody would opt out of the officer choice?
The pay is the same...
Im payed with learning!!!
Just as a point of information, NHQ Public Affairs is urging public affairs folks to use for all PA purposes the military grade abbreviations in the AP Style book, which are different from CAP's "official" abbreviations. Check the Volunteer for the differences...
Oh, no, we have to talk about common sense again.Internally, on official paper correspondence, the grade abbreviations, as defined in the CAP reg, should be used whenever practical. Conputer generated forms may not comply because somebody got lazy and didn't think about the difference between data stored in a computer, and the paper form. Computer data storage uses the shortest practical abbreviation to minimize the number of bits and bytes in a program, and in data storage.Externally, it may be necessary to adhere to an external set of rules that provides some better consistency among the different abbreviations.Bottom line - it's a situational thing. Do your best to follow the reg when you can, but maintain some flexibility when the situation doesn't allow strict compliance.
And just for the record - media is the plural of medium.
Quote from: SarDragon on June 16, 2007, 01:03:17 AMAnd just for the record - media is the plural of medium.Wait, so all these years I should have been referring to "media of communication" instead of "mediums of communication"? WoW.Dude. That's, like, gramatically paradigm shifting.
Quote from: SarDragon on March 21, 2007, 05:10:10 AMOh, no, we have to talk about common sense again.Internally, on official paper correspondence, the grade abbreviations, as defined in the CAP reg, should be used whenever practical. Conputer generated forms may not comply because somebody got lazy and didn't think about the difference between data stored in a computer, and the paper form. Computer data storage uses the shortest practical abbreviation to minimize the number of bits and bytes in a program, and in data storage.Externally, it may be necessary to adhere to an external set of rules that provides some better consistency among the different abbreviations.Bottom line - it's a situational thing. Do your best to follow the reg when you can, but maintain some flexibility when the situation doesn't allow strict compliance.Concur!It's called communications. You adjust the deliver of your message to the conditions and the listener. Outside communications needs to conform to the standards of the receiver. The media uses APA as their standard so we should use that as well.What is stupid is that we don't just change our regulation to APA as well.
Quote from: lordmonar on March 21, 2007, 05:32:38 AMQuote from: SarDragon on March 21, 2007, 05:10:10 AMOh, no, we have to talk about common sense again.Internally, on official paper correspondence, the grade abbreviations, as defined in the CAP reg, should be used whenever practical. Conputer generated forms may not comply because somebody got lazy and didn't think about the difference between data stored in a computer, and the paper form. Computer data storage uses the shortest practical abbreviation to minimize the number of bits and bytes in a program, and in data storage.Externally, it may be necessary to adhere to an external set of rules that provides some better consistency among the different abbreviations.Bottom line - it's a situational thing. Do your best to follow the reg when you can, but maintain some flexibility when the situation doesn't allow strict compliance.Concur!It's called communications. You adjust the deliver of your message to the conditions and the listener. Outside communications needs to conform to the standards of the receiver. The media uses APA as their standard so we should use that as well.What is stupid is that we don't just change our regulation to APA as well.Just to further confuse things, AP style and APA style are not the same. AP is the documentation and notation style used by the Associated Press. APA is the style manual published by the American Psychological Association for use in a great deal of scientific research literature.
MLA is much better than APA.