DA Civilians, Contractors, Liaisons and Local Nationals......

I'm a DAC, MSG (Join to see), and I know my place. In other words, I'm not equivalent to anything and nobody has to salute me! :-)

I guess there are clowns all over the world. I've seen my share on active duty, in the civilian ranks, contractors, and to a lesser extent among LNs.

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As with everything else, there are all kinds of people in the world, some good, some bad. Military personnel, DACs and contractors are no different.

When I was active duty, I had no real use for DAC or contractors, especially if I thought they were filling jobs that I thought military personnel should be filling. I had no real reason for that, it was just my personal opinion/preference.

Now that I am on the other side of that aisle as a major provider of contract services and personnel to the government/military, I have a totally different opinion and attitude about it. Duh... However, I still firmly believe there are positions that only military should fill.

I would say that after having served for 23 years, and having been a contractor for 10 years, there is goodness and badness among all categories in the workforce, and that includes our military SMs.
The whole "equivalency" issue makes for great stories and good debate. I knew some spouses who thought they should be afforded the same military courtesies as their military spouse...I'm sure many of you have heard the story about "I'm Mrs COL so and so" or " I am Mrs SGM so and so."
Yes...some of them really feel that they deserve to be saluted because of their "equivalency"...it always makes me chuckle.