> The exception to this are licensed doctors and lawyers. They enter the military as captains instead of lieutenants.
And chaplains, I think. The three professions corresponding to higher faculties in a medieval university. Many weird things in the military make more sense when you recognize them as leftovers from ancient social structures.
>>jltsir+(OP)
Chaplains are complicated. The Army has a dire shortage of chaplains so they may enter as first lieutenants (O2) as they attend their seminary education on condition they must attain a divinity masters and sponsorship from a religious organization. It used to be they would enter as captains just like doctors and lawyers.
>>austin+c9
Are they doing that now? I was looking at going through as an Army chaplain back in 2018 and I'm not sure if I'd heard about that. But I was just over the age cut off to go back in.