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I have heard the arguments all around. Some have referenced the regulation as it does not say Chief. I have even read where Chief was a insult to the Native American culture. Get over yourself. If you are unsure, ask the individual and they will INFORM you as to the way they would like to be addressed. Usually the ones that do not want the designation are the ones not too long out of WOCS. Goes along with the reference of Top, which probably goes back further than the Calvary days where the First Sergeant was the Top Soldier of the unit. My mother though was so joyful that I was to be addressed as Mister, did not hurt my feelings or change the person or Soldier that I was not to be directly addressed that way. Unit integrity is a big plus and I for one liked and wanted to be Chief, Officers and Enlisted called me that and I answered. The only time I did not like it was when there was a group of us and we would all answer "Yes" and sound like a group of birds, which usually would end in a laugh. Again, it is not a slur, just ask and you shall receive.
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Fat fingers cut my comment short. All I wanted to say was I personally called all W/O's Sir and presented them with a proper salute. It seemed most in my unit just ignored them, I was schooled in military etiquette. To that degree anyone who earned a Sir and a salute received exactly that from me.
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Aviation Branch is a little different. Generally the only ones who call us “Chief” are non-Aviation. Pilot-to-pilot it’s usually “Shawn” Steve” “Alan”. From enlisted or “RLOs” (Real Live Officers), it’s usually “Mr. Jones”, “Mr. Caballero.” However, whenever I am referred to as “Chief”, it doesn’t bother me.
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Cool. I was stationed at Hood with him for 4 years. I was his first PI after making PC. Apparently I scared the shit out of him when we parked. Tail wanted to do its own thing for a bit. Not fun when you’re parking between t-barriers.
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CW4 (Join to see) Yeah, we had a couple sphincter clinching dust landings at NTC. He just went to DES resently.
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CW4 (Join to see) Agreed. I had some lunch with him when I was at Rucker in October. He was the company XO for the Mike course at the time. I wrote him to see if he was coming, but haven’t heard yet.
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I was called everything from Steve to Chief and never really cared. What you call me is irrelevant as long as you respect me. If you don't respect me then what you call me is still irrelevant, its just one of us has a problem that needs addressed to fix that issue.
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I don't think warrant officers should allow people to call them by their first names. Unless it is a senior officer. First names are disrespectful. Warrants can command now and deserve no less respect than other officers.
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Sir, with all due respect, no one should call anyone but their first name when in a military capacity. If anyone, to include an officer, was to call me by my first name, and they have, they are told that I prefer to be addressed by my rank or my last name.
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CW3 Stephen Mills
Different stroked for different folks. Rank to me was how much I was paid, nothing more and nothing less. Rank doesn't demand respect, how you carry yourself and act is what commands respect. I suppose if all you have is titles to command respect then by all means get all worked up by the title of which you are addressed. Would you rather someone call you by their first name as they follow you into battle or address you by your rank when they sit there doing nothing? That is all I am saying.
I sent 25 years in the military, there are definitely times for rank to be used, but if you are getting worked up by being addressed wrong the rest of the time when no disrespect is intended then it sounds like a personal issue, not a professional one.
Take care of and respect your soldiers, let them see you are proud of them, act professionally, fairly and ethically, work as hard as they do and never give them a job you wouldn't do right beside them and you will have their respect. You and everybody around you will recognize it and it will show no matter how they address you.
Worry about what is important.
Earn respect and it will be freely given, demand it and you will never have it.
I sent 25 years in the military, there are definitely times for rank to be used, but if you are getting worked up by being addressed wrong the rest of the time when no disrespect is intended then it sounds like a personal issue, not a professional one.
Take care of and respect your soldiers, let them see you are proud of them, act professionally, fairly and ethically, work as hard as they do and never give them a job you wouldn't do right beside them and you will have their respect. You and everybody around you will recognize it and it will show no matter how they address you.
Worry about what is important.
Earn respect and it will be freely given, demand it and you will never have it.
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CW3 Stephen Mills
CW3 (Join to see) - Sean, they could command before and we still used first names. Respect is earned by action not by bestowed titles. Its not for every situation, but I disagree it in itself is a sign of respect or disrespect. As an enlisted soldier I called you Sean when you where a warrant. You were my boss and my friend. Calling you anything else would have been me trying to disrespect you. Even when you corrected me and there was no doubt it was the boss talking, not the friend, and I just needed to lock step and do it, we still used first names.
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When I was in the Navy and those WO's within the same unit I addressed Him or Her as "Warrant", Sir or Ma'am. In the Army I would address Him or Her as Chief, Sir or Ma'am depending on rank.
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As a young Ensign, I was told to address them as "Most Learned Expert Wise One" but that was probably just me....
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OK, pay attention. A WO1, aka wobbly one, is MR. Not Chief. A CW2-5 is 'Sir' or Chief. When in doubt, just look on in awe.
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Each Service is different, I have been addressed as Mr., Chief, and Sir. Personally I prefer Chief, but I am fine with any of them.
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