Do captains fight in combat?
Do captains fight in combat? It is entirely possible that any and every rank can see active combat. On a regular and normal basis, a Captain would be the highest ranking officer in ground forces to be expected to be a trigger puller. Anyone above that rank could, but would not be expected, to be pulling triggers.
Is A colonel higher than a captain?
In the U.S. military, a colonel in the army is the equivalent rank of a captain in the navy. The reason that colonel is pronounced like kernel in English is that the French borrowed colonel from Italian and pronounced the word with an /r/ sound, spelling it coronel. The word then came into English from French.