Is today's Army an officer's Army?

When you enter a unit as an officer, It is nice to see a full compliment of NCO's (if you are fortunate enough to be at full strength). I had a 4.2" mortar platoon for about 3 months in Germany in the 70's that did not have any NCO's(authorized 10). My platoon sergeant was a SP4. There were 31 in the platoon counting myself. I had 9 SP4's. It's a whole new ball game without NCO's. By the way my platoon sergeant was a draftee.

They may have been marginalized based on today's culture in the Military! Where officers are more fixed in working more closely with soldiers!

That's an age old question even when I was getting out in 1997.

The army has shifted to a degree. NCO's still are the backbone of the army. Air force should bring back warrants. All the air force NCO's are complaining

I've been told that when Napoleon wrote out an order he would find a literate corporal and ask him to explain his order - which might be for the entire Grande Armee.

I beg to differ

Love this photo. The junior officers in this picture are amazing. Dave did great things for the army and Mike is still kicking ass. Can’t say the same for LTC Sinclair

Officers make the decisions that get the rest of us killed so yeah, they have the power.

I'm not Army, but in the Air Force we have what we call "keeper officers". These are the ones who listen to the NCOs and who do not let a degree negate common sense. Ask any CMSgt how many General Officers they helped get their career on the right track. As we are often stationed with the Army I have noticed the same thing with your senior NCOs.

This is the same complaint I heard frequently when I was on active duty more than 50 years ago. I can't respond to the situation today but I can say that when I was in command, I relied on my NCOs for accomplishing the missions and objectives I received from my commander and passed along to them. In those cases where I had to make a command decision, I always asked for advice or confirmation from the relevant NCOs. They had the specific knowledge of the situation, technology and people that I lacked. If that approach has changed it is to the detriment of the Army.