Retired E8-E9, should your status be used as a bully platform?

Really? Is this question coming from a parent or a senior NCO that wants validation for telling a retired E9 to fuck off? Hahaha enlisted make their own way... leave the "who you know" bullshit to the officers.

1SG (Join to see) - Top, this posted/message seams to be targeted at a RallyPoint member. To which you had and have the ability to message privately. Not for his sake, more so for your Soldier, his son’s sake. By you calling him out publicly like this, you are also calling out a subordinate soldier in your Chain of Command publicly, as well. Which if true, is quite on-becoming, and you are not thinking of the posible reaction of his fellow soldiers in your ranks. You commented about a bully platform coming from a retired soldier, how about the bully platform of your Unit’s First Sergeant?

WOW!!! I loved the fact that I earned my way up the ranks and through my own career. Evidently this E-8/E-9 is a Helicopter parent. He needs to let his son fall and pick himself up. But then you can tell by his action that daddy has been there to run interference for him his whole life. I guess WOW!! just kind of sums up everything that is wrong with this person.

Seems like a rhetorical question, as I have never had a RETIRED E8 or E9 in my rating chain, just as I have never had a RETIRED O5 or O6 in my rating chain.
I will thank a retiree for their service, but I will not entertain their unsolicited input on how to conduct unit business.

1) The E-8/E-9 are RETIRED. Note the caps. Means they got out of the service after a long and distinguished career and aside from cracking jokes and telling tales about the 'good ole days' and possibly being a goto for advice, have jack all to say to anyone in command authority over their child. Period. Full stop.

2) The CHILD signed the dotted line, raised their hand and swore an oath. They get treated no different than any other child that did the same. Full stop.

3) ANY retired E-8/E-9 that interferes in their child's development/training/deployment/correction as an adult member of the military needs to be corrected on the spot and does not deserve the respect that goes with that rank or years.

As an E-8, I'm pretty sure you already know what to do. Have you sighted in on the retiree yet? Hopefully, this problem is not rolling downhill from your chain of command, if so then you're caught between a rock and another rock.

No being retire gives you no right to interfere with your son or daughter that voluntarily went in the service.

No, I don't think so. Your children should and will follow their own path. My father never interfered in my decision to go into the army instead of the navy or coast guard. My son initially wanted to go into the army back in 2010. He asked me what I thought and I said do what do best. He went into IT Tech school and has done very well. I have had army brats in the past and both were nothing but trouble even when their fathers, a 1SG & SGM paid me a visit and had prayer serve with them. Both ended up with a AR15 and a stack of formal counseling statemenbts and were chaptered out. I also had a couple of Soldiers that had prior service fathers that became outstanding SNCOs. Had my children went into the service, I would not us my formetr rank or influence to affect their status. I would not currently recommend service to anyone due to the current social experiments of army doctrine as well as the political correctness authority.

No preferential treatment. A parents rank should have absolutely no influence on their child's career. They should be deployed just like any other Joe. My father was a retired Regimental Sergeant Major from the 10th Marines. Retired after 32 years and knew a lot of people. He let me go about my career with no interference. I would go to him for advice, but that was the extent to which it went.

Nope...daddy master sergeant or daddy SGM needs to just be daddy and hush. Leave the ego at the door.