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Rank in the US Army if I recall.
Expecting people to know this is so weird (criticising op not you). Thanks for explanation
Sorry, my wife's family had strong military background and mine as well and a lot of my friends were prior service as well across different branches (Marines, Army, Chair Force), I forget sometimes that not everyone knows these things or can't pick it out from context.
All gud, I would edit the post and add an explanation tho
I was/am thinking the same way.
Maybe... but there are a number of clues and titles that can clarify a search. They mentioned e6 as a Sergeant, e8 as a master sergeant,and e7 as a guard commander. I couldn't find the matching last one, but just searching those together brought me up Army ranks that matched. He also stated that E6 was under E7, and that E8 was above that, so that conveys without much further definition a chain of command and ranks, even if you don't know exactly what ranks they are.
Guard Commander isn't a rank, its a position. E7 is Sergeant First Class, and the Guard Commander position had to be filled by an E6 or higher and they ran the RCF (Regional Correctional Facility, aka prison) I was a guard at. The Guard Commander position would be roughly equivalent with a Warden, but in military prison the Guard Commander would be the senior NCO (Non-Commisioned Officer, generally E5+, with Corporal being the exception as its an NCO but E4 in grade, so you can be an E4 Specialist that isn't an NCO, or an E4 Corporal that is an NCO, but it was vastly more common that anyone passing PLDC (Primary Leadership Development Course, the "school" you have to go to in order to become an NCO) would be promoted to E5 Sergeant at the same time in charge of the prison during that shift, so it was like having a rotating roster of Wardens made from a handful of senior NCOs.
I knew it, but that's because I read a lot of random Wikipedia. 🤷