LTC Private RallyPoint Member 254764 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Over my years in the service it seems to me that the higher up you go in headquarters the more rumors fly. It seemed that I hardly heard any rumors when I was a platoon leader, but being on staff at a brigade I heard it all. I think that it may be one of two things: 1. at a company I was a "high-up" leader so they avoided spreading rumors in front of me or 2. the higher up you go the less work or the more boring work can be for lower enlisted and junior officers causing more rumors to be invented and spread.<br /><br />Thoughts? 2014-09-25T00:11:30-04:00 LTC Private RallyPoint Member 254764

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Over my years in the service it seems to me that the higher up you go in headquarters the more rumors fly. It seemed that I hardly heard any rumors when I was a platoon leader, but being on staff at a brigade I heard it all. I think that it may be one of two things: 1. at a company I was a "high-up" leader so they avoided spreading rumors in front of me or 2. the higher up you go the less work or the more boring work can be for lower enlisted and junior officers causing more rumors to be invented and spread.<br /><br />Thoughts?

2014-09-25T00:11:30-04:00 2014-09-25T00:11:30-04:00 CPT Private RallyPoint Member 254775

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You are in a silo at a company. Each echelon up pulls in more potential for drama. I'm at DIV and frankly I try not to spread any rumors I hear...mostly because talking about yourself in the third person just sounds nuts!

2014-09-25T00:18:52-04:00 2014-09-25T00:18:52-04:00 PO1 Private RallyPoint Member 254780

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Sir, it's all based on interpretations. One's experiences combined with hearsays are primary examples of rumors. Ever heard of contradicting news or medical remedies/recipes? Personal biases and and assumptions are notorious for making their ways throughout the military, speaking from everyday personal experience.

2014-09-25T00:20:27-04:00 2014-09-25T00:20:27-04:00 PO1 Private RallyPoint Member 254840

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>If you think rumor mills abound the higher up in the food chain you go...try living on a ship...even better a submarine. The rumor mill on ships generally cranks at no less than 400k rpm on a slow day. I remember starting all sorts of rumors just to see what they'd morph into by the time it got back to me. The general turnaround time on a ship of 500....about 32 minutes for one with juicy/gory/sex details and about 1.2 minutes for operational details. One time we were ordered to make an extended solo high speed run but without any pre-planned fuel stops - something that simply was against every rule in the book (no ship permitted to get below 90% fuel without refueling). I started a betting pool immediately! Hour after hour we continued on this amazing high speed run - Adm "31 knot" Burke would have been proud! One day turns into two...we're still on the high speed run and no orders for an underweigh replenishmen (unrep). Captain calls me up to the bridge with the Cheng 4 feet in front of me. <br />"Can we use the JP-4 in the engines?" the CO queries the Cheng. "Yes". "Can we sustain the crew / water in contaminated water?" Cheng hesitates, looks at me. Both of us want to ask about the 400 ton white elephant in the room but obviously the CO is under orders to not reveal our destination. I give the Cheng the "hell if I know look" and the Cheng says: "we'll top off all tanks and see what the water reads when we get there". We're dismissed.<br /><br />By the time the betting pool was closed there was over 400 different locations to where we were headed.<br /><br />Then all of a sudden, the ship slowed and made a wide turn......and started making a very sedate path to a tanker that we met up with the next day early. We spent the entire next day refueling. Never did find out where we were supposed to be going......<br /><br />Man I hated handing back all those matches...........

2014-09-25T01:15:33-04:00 2014-09-25T01:15:33-04:00 SCPO Private RallyPoint Member 254863

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Most of us on a submarine will start rumors just to kill time and mess with each other. Though the higher in rank I get, the more BS I here, especially from the senior NCO's on board. Most of the junior officers are to engrossed in quals to do anything but believe the rumors we start, so we don't here much from them. It makes for good fun when you are underwater for weeks on end with no contact with anyone.

2014-09-25T02:20:37-04:00 2014-09-25T02:20:37-04:00 SFC Mark Merino 254887

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I spent my life in the military and I&#39;m now just hearing that there were rumors in the Army? Why wasn&#39;t I notified?.....lol!

2014-09-25T04:48:03-04:00 2014-09-25T04:48:03-04:00 MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca 254938

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You need to know the password and handshake and have applied for membership to the Super Secret Squirrel Society Headshed Habitat - SSSSHH!

2014-09-25T06:52:13-04:00 2014-09-25T06:52:13-04:00 MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca 254939

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The output of the rumor mill is directly proportional to the depth of your unit on the org chart - the closer to the top, the greater the output. <br /><br />OMG the sh!t you get from a state headquarters - who's secretly dating who, who's screwing who, who screwed over who, who got promoted over who... <br /><br />It's like a f--king tree full of owls up there.

2014-09-25T06:58:23-04:00 2014-09-25T06:58:23-04:00 2014-09-25T00:11:30-04:00