I take it "JO" means company grade (O3 and below) in Navy speak.
How do you say "field grade" in Naveese?
LCDR and above. In Naval aviation slang, LCDR's are "hinges". (So named because their necks are hinged to move up and down only...).
You also have to have a frontal lobotomy when you make O-4. 
JO stands for Junior Officer.
Way I heard it is they take your tongue at O4, they take your brain at O5, and at O6 they give you your brain back...
Someone should ask Kaplan if he knows what the good congressman for CAIR did in the Navy--"military toughness"? Feh.
O-4 Frontal Lobotomy
O-5 Removal of Spine
O-6 Removal of heart
They used to give the heart back sometimes to some people who made flag. Lately however the corporate Navy keeps forgetting this detail. Having a heart or caring about your Sailors seems to have become a disqualifier.
Skippy,
Baaawaaaahaaahahaha, great snag. That's worth a post on Monday; above the fold!
We told them so..... What should I call it? "Neener neener neener - What sounds like psychopath?"
Argh, I messed up and didn't catch it until now.
Shows how out of practice I am.
At O-6 they give you your tongue back...
I always thought Queeg was autistic, what with the ball-bearing stim toys, and the total social cluelessness. Hey, takes one to know one! (Wouk pointed out that it was the duty of the more "normal" people in the wardroom to support Queeg because, well, he *was* the Captain, and with good support he would have done better.)
I think Sestak is a different kind of guy, entirely, more sociopathic than autistic, that is, very attuned to the monkey social considerations, but as one who strives to manipulate them for his own purposes and feels no particular pull from them himself.
Oh, and P.s.
Was there not an hilarious Firesign Theatre album promulgated back in the '70s, in which some of the characters mentioned "The Secret Code of Military Toughness?"
I'll be sixty shortly, but even before I was old enough to vote, I understood that O-6 is as high as a normal honest person can expect to rise in the US Armed Forces.
There are and have been exceptions, but as I wrote above, don't expect them.
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