Posted on Oct 3, 2016
I just visited West Point. Are the best Army officers often from West Point?
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Never ask an Officer if they are from West Point. If they are they'll let you know. Repeatedly.
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SSG Herman Bauman
Every West Pointer I ever knew wore the Ranger Tab, so even now I assume that an officer wearing a Ranger Tab is a West Pointer.
LTC Peter Plassmann correct me if I am wrong.
LTC Peter Plassmann correct me if I am wrong.
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SFC Bill Snyder
They have a Union: the West Point Protective Association. They take care of their own.
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SSG Rodney Richter
Generally correct but I did have a Platoon Leader who was #1 out of his class arrive in Germany and he listened to his more experienced NCO's. He was the exception rather than the rule.
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LTC Lane Altenbaumer
As an officer, my NCO's didn't get away with as much as they thought they should. As an OCS graduate (5-81), I have 10 years of enlisted experience as an 11 bang bang.
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They certainly make better LTs, given experience, but like the above commented mentioned, we’ve all seen the prior enlisted guy that gets his commission and coasts to retirement or starts every sentence with “as a prior NCO...”
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TSgt (Join to see)
Not sure I but that. I used to believe it but lately I’ve worked for shitty officers that were prior enlisted and currently work for a great officer from the academy.
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SFC Kenneth Hunnell
If West Point Officer's got rid of the God complex, they would be the very best.
This reminds me of my tour to Afghanistan, when i was there i came across a few Marines, they were outstanding. The ones i came across that never deployed, they came across as having a God complex.
After i was in Afghanistan for a while, i could tell if a Marine has been there a while or has deployed before. The ones that have seemed to figure out that they were not invincible
Not knocking on the Marines, just making an observation
This reminds me of my tour to Afghanistan, when i was there i came across a few Marines, they were outstanding. The ones i came across that never deployed, they came across as having a God complex.
After i was in Afghanistan for a while, i could tell if a Marine has been there a while or has deployed before. The ones that have seemed to figure out that they were not invincible
Not knocking on the Marines, just making an observation
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SPC Patricia K. (Williams) Elliott
My experience says prior enlisted usually make the best officers! Of course there are exceptions to every rule and I have met some very fine officers that went through OCS and the Academy!
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It's been my experience that young USMA officers sometimes have interpersonal skill issues, compared to OCS and ROTC officers. The good ones overcome it and progress. The bad ones don't.
Good officers come from all of the commissioning sources. It is what the individual makes of the opportunity, not the letters on their class ring.
Good officers come from all of the commissioning sources. It is what the individual makes of the opportunity, not the letters on their class ring.
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SSG Herman Bauman
My son was Navy ROTC and continued in the Reserves after his required active duty. He made Captain (O-6) a couple of months ago. I don;t think he could have accomplished that if he wasn't a good officer. I am trying to keep my bias from affecting my opinion. It was my experience that most upper level officers came out of the academy. Not that they were the better officers.
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CPT Earl George
My experience with West Point officers is as follows: they are either really good or really bad. I had 135 of them in my IOBC class.
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