Do cadets actually outrank non-commissioned officers?

I encountered such a cadet or two in my day. Let's say that Cadet now a MG still calls me Sir! He drives me nuts and we have been friends since June 1989. LoL

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I have dealt with this issue before during my US Army Years prior to my switching over to the USAF. I was a 19E & 19K and periodically we would "entertain" West Point and ROTC Cadets in their Junior & Senior Semesters prior to their graduation / official commissioning. Most would look-learn & listen ie stay out of the way, but others thought they were Gen. Patton and would order the Enlisted & NCOs around like they were a bunch of raw recruit butlers or just out of Basic. Because of this, these "cadets" were highly resented and viewed as spoiled brat prima-donnas. Personally I feel that NO CADET be they ROTC or from the Academies has the right to order anybody around, especially well-trained and experienced Military Personnel who have already paid-their-dues so to speak and officially proven themselves. Cadets and ROTC'rs don't deserve to be saluted or allowed to give orders until they Officially Graduate and have been given their commissions.

Cadets in your unit for training should be treated as future officers. Give them the same respect as you would an officer just as you would expect respect from them as an NCO.

Don't confuse a Cadet rank with that of and Officer or NCO on active duty, the guard or Reserve. Cadet rank only exist inside the Cadet Structure. A Cadet officer only merits a salute from Cadets of lower rank and not even a private has to salute a Cadet officer or any other Cadet. They do not even outrank a private let alone an NCO. Until such time as the are no longer a Cadet and actually receive a Commission they have no standing to issue orders to anyone but a Cadet of lower rank within the Cadet structure. They are students leaning to be officers, NOT Officers of the Armed Forces, or its Reserve or Guard components. Until a Cadet is either a Commissioned or Warrant Officer He has no right or authority to give any orders to anyone but a lower ranking Cadet. I have been Cadet and also instructed Cadets and certainly knew Who was in charge between the two and it was NEVER the Cadet. This is a case of someone that is only a Cadet trainee that somehow thinks He is more important than He actually is. I don't know where some Cadets have come up with those foolish ideas by NO Regulation, Army, Navy, Marines or Coast Guard or Instruction in the Air Force give them that status over enlisted people of any rank until they are actually Commissioned. A Cadet wishing or think that doesn't make it true and I'm happy to report I Myself haven't witnessed any Cadet make that statement or try to exert authority He or She doesn't even have !

Let them have their delusions. They will be better prepared when the first attempt to mess with NCOs after they become 0-1's

Hell NO !! they are dots not Officers yet.

Times like this make me glad I'm a VETERAN. I served my time and my rank is in a shadow box.

Whiskey tango foxtrot.
I did not know that.
Well, that's brutal, plain and simple.

Glad I did not know that when I was active.
God help the cadets who "outranked" me during their summers at Bragg w/the 82nd if we had known.

Brutal.

AR 600-20, Yes, cadets do outrank NCOs. They technically fall between NCOs and Warrant Officers.

As Cadets, the rank below an E-1. However during their First Class Summer - the one between their "junior" and "senior" years - they are sent to active Army units to play "real" soldier. They are given a temporary rank of 3LT (third lieutenant) to put them in the line-of-command for training purposes - so that any directions they give are technically direct orders. In the hierarchy, they fall above NCO's and below Warrants . They are given real positions within the staff, but always have a "minder" with them, in my direct experience usually a 1LT or CW2 whose MOS is in the area they have been assigned (i.e. an Intel-type if they are in the S-2). They seldom, if ever, have an opportunity to "order" anyone or anything, but have to have to have the "rank" in active training "just-in-case."