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No, I'm sorry, I never had an experience with Specialists and other service members other than Army.
I attended the NCO Academy as a corporal (my SGM said to graduate or he'd have me converted to SP4). In my class was a newly promoted, from SP7, Master Sergeant (E-8). The guy was an air traffic controller and knew zilch about the real Army.
As the ranking man in the class, he was appointed as the Company Commander and his first assignment was to form the company and march them to the theater. He immediately shouted in a very weak voice "Company Attention" There was no prepretory command and no command of execution, just "Company Attention.
The Tac NCO bellowed, "As You Were"! The MSG shouted "As I Was"!
Since the highest ranking NCO in the class couldn't accomplish the task, the Tac NCO turned to me as the lowest ranking NCO in the class and made me the Acting Company Commander.
From then on, every rime the MSG screwed up, I was ordered to take over.
Something worked because the MSG managed to graduate the course and I was selected as the honor grad and meritoriously promoted to E-5.
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