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When an article is about a military rank itself, the generic format is used for the title; for example, Able seaman, instead of Able Seaman. However, in article text, when used as title, the rank is capitalized; for example, "Able Seaman John Doe". When used generically it is not capitalized, for example, "John Doe has the rank of able seaman".
I am a capitalization minimalist, and believe that MOS tells us, and should, that when we have a choice of using a job title (which would be capitalized) or the same word as a job description (which would not), then we should prefer job description. However, there is another issue here.
Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
Much of WP:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Composition titles should merge into WP:Manual of Style/Titles#Capitalization, with just a summary of key points being retained at MOSCAPS, and an even more compressed version at the main MOS page. We have these topical subpages for the express purpose of serving as "for more information" loci, with ...
Sometimes the title-and-subtitle style with a colon works: Neoclassicism: antiquity recreated in an 18th-century mode. It is usually unnecessary to state what kind of image is being shown. A map of the world showing NATO member countries can be captioned simply NATO members rather than Map of NATO members.
The question comes down bluntly to whether MOS (which is Tony1's argument) says proper names in the title cannot be capitalized, or if RS, which capitalized things, is more important for the capitalization in a title.
The general rule from MOS:CAPS is that wherever a military term is an accepted proper name, as evidenced by consistent capitalization in reliable sources, it should be capitalized in Wikipedia. Where there is uncertainty as to whether a term is a proper name, consensus should be reached on the talk page; the MOS:CAPS default is to use lower ...
WP:MOSCAPS currently specifies this for titles of people (my emphasis): When an unhyphenated compound title such as vice president or chief executive officer is capitalized (unless this is simply because it begins a sentence), each word begins with a capital letter: In 1974 Vice President Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States by Chief Justice Warren Burger This does not ...