In my last campaign rank seemed to be important (I didn't enforce it that way, it just seemed that the players followed rank structure with their characters) but in other campaigns rank hasn't mattered so much. So I chose "depends on the campaign". I ran a really succesful one-off once where the characters were part of a long range patrol of French Foreign Legionnares on the Iran-Iraq border and the chain of command was rigidly adhered to in that game. I guess more often than not rank does matter in my campaigns.
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