Posted on Jan 20, 2014
Would you prefer to be addressed as 1SG or Top?
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This discussion goes out to everybody but mainly to E-8’s. My question is how do you prefer to by addressed as. I have had several 1SG, and some of them have flipped out on soldiers when they were called Top. I myself try my hardest to always address my 1SG by his or her name and rank, but I see others on a daily basis doing both.
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I always addressed them as "Top", as that was I was instructed to do. They didn't seem to mind. It would appear that things are different now. I guess it would be up to the individual, as how he prefers to be addressed.
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When I used the word top on a 1SG when I was a SSG, he smiled at me and said... "do i spin? do you want me to spin"? I said "Negative 1SG". He said, "you learned quick. Stick with the title you just said." Been that way with all 1SG's ever since.
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I didnt dare call my 1SG by TOP until I became an NCO myself, and now that I've spent 2 years in the officer side of the house it depends on the situation. Im not going to yell Hey TOP to get his attention, its for more informal situations.
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Sir, I called 1SGs top even when I was an active duty Private. I had one 1SG who was universally loved and respected in the entire company....EVERYONE called him Top, even when he was chewing your ass.
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SPC Johnny Velazquez, PhD
We didn't dare call our 1SG as such. He would say to us, "See these stripes? They tell me that I'm on top. SO CALL ME TOP!" We did!
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In the AF, we either addressed them a 1st Shirt or Shirt. Nothing else was ever said as to how to address them. <br><br>Unless they are a Chief Master Sargent. Then its Chief. <br><br>I know the AF is weird when it comes to having 3 different ranks for 1st Sargent.<br>
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TSgt Hurley thank you for your feedback I remember when I first came into the army after leaving the air force I called my 1SG shirt. Yep that was a mistake.
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For me, when I was enlisted, it was just like 1SG Thomas Kupsh said. If I was reporting to him (whether good or bad) I called and responded as 1SG. But if we were training, on the drill floor, or out and about, he preferred to be called TOP.
Now that I am an officer, When around other soldiers or sending someone to see the 1SG, I tell them its the 1SG, but when I am casually talking with the 1SG or BS'n, I usually say TOP.
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