View Full Version : "Why My Supply Sgt Sucks..."
I know this doesn't carry for all supply nco's that ever have been, or will be... but
"Do you want socks, or tee shirts? If we order socks, we can't order tee shirts....if we order tee shirts, we can't get socks..."
A pre-deployment budget and the guy is so frugal you would think he gets to transfer the funds into his Roth IRA.
Then there is...
"Well just give me the NSN number and I will put the order in..."
3 months and 3 delivered NSN numbers later,
" I told you just get me the NSN number and I will put the order in."
Hopefully I am not the only one with similar experiences/stories?
Being the Supply Sgt's buddy works wonders.
Peregrino
02-01-2011, 20:49
Being the Supply Sgt's buddy works wonders.
Nah - It just means you're going to jail with him when everybody else gets suspicious because your guys are the only ones with the cool Leathermans and Camelbacks.
Once upon a time I had a supply sgt like that. Only person he ever took care of was the CO. CO got fired, new CO came in and promptly canned the supply sgt after he got an ear full due to his "open door" policy.
NoRoadtrippin
02-01-2011, 22:09
I'm in the same boat. We supposedly are getting pre-NTC/down range money as well and yet somehow I can't seem to find any to spend. We got something like 3k in IMAP recently, but GPC is all of like $500 a month.
I mean what kind of toys am I supposed to buy with that? I can't hook up 130 guys for 3k...
Dozer523
02-01-2011, 22:52
Supply Sargeant creed: Bogart the best; issue the rest.;)
greenberetTFS
02-02-2011, 01:54
Supply Sgt. was the best job in the army in the 50's,they were exactly like most politicians,always willing and able to wheel and deal!................:rolleyes::eek::p
Big Teddy :munchin
Supply Sgt. was the best job in the army in the 50's,they were exactly like most politicians,always willing and able to wheel and deal!................:p
Big Teddy :munchin
Teddy & I are old school. The S4 was the backbone of the unit. Although there were deals to be made, it was always to the benefit of the unit..
Or to get ready for the annual IG..
Never had less than a 99.7%...
Least wise, when I was S4... :D
Ask SSgt. Crapgame!!! (at 33 to 48 sec)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beAQVm1j56w
:munchin
Only person he ever took care of was the CO. That cannot be underestimated...the guy I replaced in company command paid out about $1K in property losses when I took over...twenty-one months later, I paid nothing...same supply sergeant...he was a scrounge and a wheeler-dealer, although he did nothing I was uncomfortable with (then again, I was once a junior engineer sergeant on an A-detachment)...even managed to trade some broken snowshoes for leather chairs to put in the conference room (the BC asked for that)...
That said, if it was in the supply room, it was the troops'...all they had to do was sign for it...the SSSC account was always well accounted for and he did not buy frills...but we had the necessities by the boat load...
I had a 175-man company, changed command with 500 sets of sheets...:eek::D
And my mess sergeant...damn...highest headcount in the division...good support NCOs are a treasure...
1stindoor
02-02-2011, 08:41
My favorite supply Sgt experience....
As the Asst Ops Sgt for the ODB, asked the supply sgt for staples...
I got one row of staples!
My biggest irritant though was putting in the SSSC order, only to have your order thinned out because three other teams didn't make the order in time and needed stuff.
BN S-4 NCOIC 'Big' Jim Brown would do anything for us and we'd do the same for him.
He once sent us a resupply bundle with rats and a request for Spring Water mid-way through a lonnnnnggggg UW FTX in Northern Arizona during crappy weather which had a case of Coors (two beers per man) that we drank before departing the DZ's RP area. We paid him back when we exfil'd. It was one of the biggest morale boosters I can recall.
Wonder if they'd do that today? :confused:
Richard
1stindoor
02-02-2011, 10:21
Wonder if they'd do that today? :confused:
Richard
Without exposing current tricks of the trade...I will simply say, "yes."