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We all know officers can't get anything done without being hand held by an NCO or SNCO. My opinion, enlisted are the ones really in charge. I once had an LT who tried to tell me how the crypto equipment worked, he wound up wiping it and I spent the next 3 hours fixing it.
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Without getting too deep into it, the NCO's know that things run better when the inhabitants of the "Head Shed" stay there.
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SGT Dave Tracy
CW3 Harvey K. - But until then....
I'm not premiered to say it out loud, but I have actually known one or two "butter bars" who held out great promise for the future. Shh...don't tell anyone I said that!
I'm not premiered to say it out loud, but I have actually known one or two "butter bars" who held out great promise for the future. Shh...don't tell anyone I said that!
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CW3 Harvey K.
SGT Dave Tracy - Yep. Sometimes it's an incomprehensible shock to realize that great generals were once "butter bars".
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Cpl Tom Surdi
CW3 Harvey K. - WTF, Mattis was born a full bird Colonel. Don't disrespect Mattis like that!
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SGT Dave Tracy - Your secret's safe-we promise. We had a term used pretty often; the "O-4 Lobotomy"...as JOs, we wondered how the "cool", cynical O-3s who bought us drinks and drove sports cars suddenly became sour, grumpy old farts who talked about "professionalism" all the time. By the time I became an O-4, I "got it"...some officers finally see the "big picture", put the pieces together, and get serious about applying the lessons their NCOs taught them over a decade or more...and others never get it at all. It's been a real treat watching my classmates go from O-1 to O-5, and observing the changes (mostly positive) over time...
...but Cpl Surdi's right about Mattis; he was assembled out of spare parts found under Tun Tavern and injected with whiskey and rattlesnake blood.
...but Cpl Surdi's right about Mattis; he was assembled out of spare parts found under Tun Tavern and injected with whiskey and rattlesnake blood.
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