Posted on Feb 23, 2018
Does rank play a part in how you view individuals after you have left the service?
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Whether it be on social media or in person at the local Veteran Service Organization (VSO), does the rank that you left the service with and the ranks that other veterans left the service with play into how you view, associate with, or speak to other veterans? The highest rank that I ever had was Sergeant and I still find that I address those that I know were officers as "sir" or "ma'am". (I also address all generations of older veterans as "sir" or "ma'am".) I still hold a certain level of respect for all those who attained a rank higher than I did, but I do speak to them as if we could have been old friends. I consider us all on almost a completely even field after leaving the service. Does anyone believe any different?
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Not really; as a retired E-7, I pall around on an equal basis with all grades.
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My American Legion chapter has all kinds of characters and I think all kinds of ranks and services, but I have never asked and don't care because we are all friends and veterans.
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My father retired as a Col. I respected him always as the Col. OSS in wwII first advisers in Vietnam 1956. I went to Nam 13 years later. You respect the man for what he did and always remember their sacrife
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Anyone who served gets at all the respect in the world. Thank only counts! Rank remains, but we all did our job.Thank you for your service
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It does only if the person is retired. I'm retired SSG, so I still am a SSG. That is my title, like Dr. ,Professor etc.
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I look at anyone who achieved a high rank in the military as I would someone who became a CEO of a large company. I also admire all that have served their country regardless of rank.
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No, and Yes.
We are all just Veterans now.
But, I still refer to a former CO who I am on Facebook friends with as Capt. Dave.
At reunions, I sometime refer to shipmates by the rank or rate I knew them as, like Boats, or Chief, or Capt, or Asshole. but it's more a "term of endearment".
We are all just Veterans now.
But, I still refer to a former CO who I am on Facebook friends with as Capt. Dave.
At reunions, I sometime refer to shipmates by the rank or rate I knew them as, like Boats, or Chief, or Capt, or Asshole. but it's more a "term of endearment".
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