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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer
I am surprised that someone can become an SF team sergeant based on prior Big Army experience alone.
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That was a specific time and place situation, 1987. The battalion had just re-shuffled a bunch of teams when we did away with the water ops company (real bad execution of a "could have been" good idea). Company C had a bunch of the more experienced people working out at Mott lake. Due to slotting, warm bodies, the re-shuffle, etc Company C was kinda' in a rebuilding mode during that year.
In the 80s rank was rank. With NCOERs, slots and the paper shuffle, top rank held the top job. But never say never, I did have an E-7 senior to me assigned to the team once. He was the intel sergeant and did a great job with no problems.
While the two stories above only take a few minutes to read both required hard work by a number of individuals to complete. Of all my time in SF I was never "Ordered" to do anything and I never had to "Order" anyone to do anything. After the planning phase of any operation, where everybody had their input, the team leader and team sergeant put out the way it was going to be. After that everybody on the team gave 110% to get it done. Things might change during the execution phase but everybody kept their eyes on the final goal and kept on working to get there.
I got where I did in SF only by the hard work of those around me. With people like that its easy to look good.
Pete