11 things First Sergeants say that make troops lose their minds. What have you heard?

I really don't understand this thread.. Im quite sure no sentence I ever uttered as a 1SG was ever received by my Soldiers as anything other than lovingly welcome, professional and well timed , articulate and sucent guidance that helped them achieve greatness as a team.

Thats my story and I'm sticking to it.

"Standby to standby." Translation: Some unknown-to-you event is supposed to happen sometime in the next 1-to-20 hours, so sit here and don't go anywhere or start doing anything productive because we'll have at least 3 false-alarms before we finally get word that the unknown event has been cancelled.

While I was in basic our First Sergeant came in the barracks and asked who loved art, several trainees raised their hands, he then asked how many of you like to dance, several trainees raised their hands. They left with the First Sergeant and didn't return until dark. The art lovers had painted barracks all day, and the dancers "waltzed" a mop around in all the mess halls. First thing my dad told me," Don't volunteer for anything". First time I ever listened to him.