In The Empire Strikes Back, why does Han significantly outrank Luke?

Flying Squid@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 107 points –

Luke blew up the freakin' Death Star and he only gets to be commander. Han wants to skip out on the whole rebellion thing and he gets to be a general.

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Han had previous military training, both in Legends and the new Disney Canon.

Was that between Solo and A New Hope? Because I don't remember him having any training in Solo.

They skipped it over in Solo. He washed out of the navy’s pilot academy at Carida; his big mount and, ah, in-imperial stature were the problem.

He joined the Imperial academy then the Navy, then kicked out of the Navy and sent to the Mimbam where he was the PFI in trenches