Originally Posted By: HairyKnuckles
Originally Posted By: Ted
Originally Posted By: HairyKnuckles

(Technically speaking, every made member of a family is a soldier, even the underboss etc.)

Wrong. Made man means formally inducted into the Mafia. So bosses, underbosses, captains, etc are all made men. A soldier is the lowest rank in that hierarchy.


Well...yeah. Same thing, different name.
They are all "soldiers" (even those made men who hold the [ui]rank [/u] of a soldier, just like officers in the US Army (for example) technically still are regarded as soldiers, regardless of rank.

Im with you on this one, just lke i consider the underboss, consigliere, and the captain of the boss's old crew to be the boss's "crew". With this crew the boss basically control a huge extortion ring thhat the feds(and everyone else) consider to be his crime family/gang. MO.