Talk:Maritime Gendarmerie

Name
There is a Gendarmerie Maritime, which is not part of the French Navy but a specialized unith within the Gendarmerie (like the Gendarmerie Mobile and the Gendarmerie de l'Air). Wikipedia France gets it right.

I never heard "gendarmerie navale", a Google search mainly returns clones of this WP article. Apokrif 18:39, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Ranks
"The uniforms, ranks and insignia of the Gendarmerie Maritime are those of the French Navy."

fr:Discuter:Grades de l'armée française: "Concernant les grades de la gendarmerie maritime ou de la gendarmerie de l'air, ils sont d'apparence identiques aux grades des armes pour lesquelles la gendarmerie est placée pour emploi mais les appellations sont celles de la gendarmerie." If I understand well, the gendarmerie maritime should have the same ranks than the rest of the gendarmerie, although they perhaps have different rank insignia on their uniforms. http://www.defense.gouv.fr/sites/gendarmerie/decouverte/organisation/gendarmeries_specialisees101/maritime/gendarmerie_maritime./ says the chief of the gendarmerie maritime is a colonel, which is not a naval rank. Apokrif 18:43, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * It says : "As for ranks of Naval and Air gendarmerie, they have the same appearance than those of the arm at service of which the Gendarmerie is, but the ternimology is that of the gendarmerie".
 * I do not know whether this is exact of not, but according to this, the officer you are talking about might have the uniform of a Navy capitaine de vaisseau, and be called "colonel". Rama 21:21, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 * PS: sorry for this stupid contribution, I did not realise that your mother tongue was French. Rama 21:26, 20 September 2006 (UTC)