Can a Specialist make a Private stand at Parade Rest for him?

My bottom line- if the SPC is in charge of the detail, the Fire Team, in charge of whatever- he is going it under the authority of who ever selected him for that position. that person is an NCO, and if the SPC was one of my Team leaders, then I would makes sure all the lower SM's give him the courtesy of an NCO- We hardly ever, never had any CPL's, so many of our Team Leaders were senior SPC or SPC(P). I allowed 0 disrespect of my Chain.

28 years in the Army and I never saw anyone come to a "stiff puppet" position when speaking to anyone who outranked them except when they were getting their ass chewed

I’m a Mrine Corps Corporal that switched to the Army and became a SPC. I wish I could put people at parade rest but that’s not the SPC’s job. SPC’s are the line in between NCO’s and Junior Soldiers. Now should they since they are the same pay grade as a CPL; in my opinion yes, but they don’t have too. SPC has no power in that sense

If you are a private and you have a specialist that is holding a team leader position then yes. If he choses. I've never been smoked as bad as I have by a specialist. And never once thought ab bringing up the fact that he wasn't an nco I did what he told me to do and gave him the same respect as an nco because he was in an nco's position. It's a respect thing. He's not a private for a reason

I was in a squad leader position when I was E-4. I believe this is the only time a Private should stand at parade rest for a specialist.

I was a specialist , never a fan of regulations but I respected them as a good soldiers should , never gave orders out of orderly room

Pay attention to soldiering not BS please

I was placed as a squad leader and then a plt. sgt position as a spc 4 , let me tell you i didn't have to order anyone to parade rest as the other 2 had my back.and if top caught it they wished like hell they hadn't we eventually got some 5's and 6's in and I was moved to team leader. after PLDC I was laterally promoted by general Taylor

They did in my unit when I was in

Although the regulations will tell you that it is not required or customary to do so. Yes! Ranger Battalion was a special time for me and in 1/75th Rgr. Bn. if a SPC was "tabbed", meaning he has successfully completed Ranger School, than any "untabbed" personnel would stand at parade rest for that SPC. Even a buck sgt or E-5, who was "untabbed" depending on the Platoon Sgt. you had at the time, wanted the Sgt to stand at parade rest for a "tabbed" SPC. Completing Ranger School was a coveted right of passage not only in Ranger Battalions but Army wide.