Canada
The Canadian Forces abolished the appointment of lance corporal on their creation as a unified force in 1968. The rank of trained private equates to OR-3 and wears the single chevron, but has no command authority. In terms of actual authority, the current appointment of master corporal equates most directly to the pre-unification appointment of lance corporal as in both cases, this appointment was granted to soldier second-in-command of an infantry section, for example.
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“I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Irving Layton (b. 1912)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)