Why are 92Gs classified as "DUMB" when alot of food operations specialist have high GT scores?

SPC (Join to see), many years ago I was HHC Commander for the 15th Psychological Operations Battalion. Naturally, we had a mess section and the mess sergeant (SFC) was a culinary genius in my opinion. He was even a finalist for USAR Philip A. Connelly Award one year!
No one that ever had chow with us thought that anyone in our mess section was dumb!
COL Mikel J. Burroughs

As a 92g30, in a 92g40 position, I encourage ANYONE that believes that being a cook is easy or just for "dumb" people to come to a CK and work along side of my section for a field exercise where we may average 3 to 4 hours of sleep a day. Then, only then, express how lazy or dumb cooks are, if you think we are! I know what my section is made of. I have some of the most motivated warriors I have ever had the privilege of serving with in this section.

Just remember this, If you are good at your craft and have good management skills you won't be looking for a job long if you get out. Everything you do as a cook is directly transferable to civilian sector. Many MOS aren't

I have alot of respect for 92G's. They come to work early and leave late. If you think outside the box, running a DFAC is like running a buisness with managing the money, attracting customers (alot of lower enlisted dont like to go unless it's exceptional),keeping the place clean,passing inspections etc. They could use this to run their own buisness one day. For anyone who classifies them as "dumb" they are ignorant to what a 92G is all about, and cooking is only half the job. Theres more than what meets the eye.

It's a lot like people's perception of Infantry, I suppose. Some people think we do it because it's all we CAN do, which couldn't be much further from the truth for most. I guess it takes one to understand one.

ya know...what job in the Army actually requires you to be a freaking genius???
Unless your are pilot, hold a scalpel in your hand, or are representing me as the accused...
I am a logistics officer, currently I am an aviation exercise planner.
I come in, I read emails, I go to meetings and talk about those emails, and then I leave those meetings and send/receive emails about the meeting I just attended.
I peddle information.

As a one-time recruiter, it is due mostly to the low ASVAB line scores required for the job, and as someone who served for 26 years, some of it comes from the fact that when they do perform the jobs they enlisted into a lot of them "bitch and moan" about the treatment they receive yet fail to realize a lot of that treatment comes from the lousy service they provide and the low-quality product they turn out.

Inter-MOS rivalry and the low (but not lowest!) score requirements. 11 series catches the same hell, but some of the smartest guys I served with were grunts. Hell, my old roommate teaches Artificial Intelligence at Harvard.

SPC (Join to see) If we all do a little deep thought, we find that our trust in the people who prepare our food is an absolute trust. We are going to EAT what they prepare. High or low score? I don't really care. They are going to take basic ingredients and make them something more than they began. I find that the creativity and intelligence it takes to cook well, is very high. The problem is the association with any score. I began my life at 17 years old as an Air Force POL specialist. One of the lowest ASVAB requirements in the USAF. I never allowed that to define me. I married the most beautiful Airman that ever joined, I re-trained into Intelligence, I got a bachelors degree and two associates. I retired as a MSgt after a 24 year distinguished career, and I am now a Government civilian in the Missile Defense Agency and the equivalent of a GS13. Clearly my first job did not bound my future. However, I met some of the most intelligent people of my career in POL. The fact that they remained in that career field simply meant to me that they enjoyed their career path and wished to continue doing something that they found fulfilling and worthwhile. One of those people almost got eliminated from the USAF for failure to get promoted. Why? He couldn't read. That in no way defined his intelligence. He was the go to guy for difficult problem solving by the SNCOs and officers. NO ONE knew the career field as well as he did! It took far too long and far too many useless supervisors before one of the greatest acts of leadership I witnessed in my early career happened. A young E6 asked him what the problem was. He said he couldn't finish the tests because "I don't read too well TSgt Rudd"! That TSgt asked him to read a regulation and was astonished. He could not read any words with more than two syllables and not a lot of the ones that were two syllables. He took the guy to the education center, got him MONTHS of reading classes and he made rank the next two tests. Not stupid, just not cared about until almost too late. There are NO stupid people! There are however small minded people who only think of themselves and try to put others down! I just chose to never listen to them.

Because they’re ignorant.
Let ‘m think it.
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