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Originally Posted by BMT
Damn!!! I glad I made E-8 in '67. I don't fit Pete's description.
BMT
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Most didn't but we can all remember somebody who drifted off while they were fairly young and only returned when they were a CSM. "You've got an "S" from when you were an E-5 commo SGT in Group. You can go back as a Bn CSM."
I can remember at least one CSMs where everybody was wondering where he came from. Checking with the S-1 on past assignments, putting out feelers to everybody who was somebody asking if they knew him, phone calls to buddies in other groups who might have known him way back when.
I'm trying to recall the Bn CSM we had around the time of Brown and before Luthy (CRS on this one). He was a commo guy who went to conventional land around 65/66 and returned around 1980 +/- as a CSM. He drifted in and out and everybody forgot his name. But when he first showed up it was funny at first how many of the guys were spending so much time tracking down his background. Much time could have been saved by pooling the effort but doing that is like trying to herd cats.
I know recruiting duty got a number of good senior E-6s who only returned when they made the 8 list. Mike W, the crazy Indian, was one and last time I saw him he was a 1SG with an office in Moon/Hardy Hall around 1988.
Yeah, days before Branch had some interesting moments.
Pete