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Originally Posted by Greenhat
This part I agree with. I am not convinced that enlisted service automatically makes a better Officer, having seen too many Mustangs who could not recognize the difference in the role between NCOs and Officers.
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This is an interesting gunfight but before we go comparing body part lengths we all are speaking from experiences that we have had. Now I will agree we all have seen officers that thought their rank had to do something with status, intelligence, height, looks, and divinity-especially in the early years of SF. From what I have seen from the sixties to the nineties, there has been a definite change, over all, for the better primarily because of the creation of the 18A MOS. That is not to say that we don't get our share of mental midgets and power freaks, but on the whole I think after an 18A comes to a team, regardless of source of commissioning, those who have delusions of grandure about themselves undergo an epiphany. From my experience team members will break him from sucking eggs in about a week and in those cases where that doesn't work the chain of command will resolve the problem. Now I cannot explain what happens when some folks suddenly get promoted and move on, perhaps it has to do with the infection some seem to get from the pins holding on their new rank.
Just my observation.
Jack Moroney