tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post3277640800978495659..comments2023-06-25T20:42:38.014-07:00Comments on CI-Roller Dude: The "Specialist...AKA "Sham Shield"CI-Roller Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10850472230525879415noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-80379399245405180822011-08-08T08:52:34.152-07:002011-08-08T08:52:34.152-07:00Saker,
Yes...and make it more fun.Saker,<br />Yes...and make it more fun.CI-Roller Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10850472230525879415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-38427126692948366032011-08-07T19:33:01.630-07:002011-08-07T19:33:01.630-07:00Say what you want about specialists, I swear we co...Say what you want about specialists, I swear we could run the show all by ourselves, if necessary. :DSakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17926552286737174931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-31311460502496274082011-08-06T10:29:18.948-07:002011-08-06T10:29:18.948-07:00EC, In those days I could dissapeer in seconds...p...EC, In those days I could dissapeer in seconds...poof!<br /><br />JW, I'll do a post on "Acting Sergeants" in the old days...CI-Roller Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10850472230525879415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-53348934361249441212011-08-06T10:24:53.169-07:002011-08-06T10:24:53.169-07:00Damn! I've been a SEC all my life and didn'...Damn! I've been a SEC all my life and didn't know it. I now have a creed to live by,too. Thanks, Dude!Coffeypothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08601474604616163167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-46881085256628907982011-08-06T06:24:18.257-07:002011-08-06T06:24:18.257-07:001. Between your screed and the creed, pretty much ...1. Between your screed and the creed, pretty much nailed it.<br />2. In the units I served in (a few years before you)only knew two corporals. Both were SGT's who had been reduced in rank and were waiting to get their stripes back.<br />3. Was a squad leader a couple, three times and no one said diddly about giving me (or anyone else) a command rank.<br />4. Where I was, had to drink the kool-ade and morph into a "lifer"<br />if you wanted SGT.<br />5. Met a couple 1st hitch SGT's that earned their third stripe and a few that managed to acquire them by other means.<br />6. For awhile, the Army was hurting for NCO's and sent the top graduates of infantry ITS to the NCO academy.<br />7. These totally inexperienced SGT's were called "Shake and Bakes."<br />8. Had a couple of those in my platoon over the course of a year.<br />9. They tended to bond with the LT and the senior specialists were left trying to look out for the troops. (Three 7 man squads, SL's E-4 or 5, PLT SGT E-5)<br />10. As in: "No, you and the EL Tee can bivouac on the registration point, we'll be 600M south 'cause we want to wake up tomorrow morning..."<br />11.If you had told me back then I was going lifer -and would eventually become an officer, I'd have laughed.<br />12. Two things I get now, that totally escaped me back then:<br /> 1) As bad as we were, back in the day, we were still better than any foreign force I ever saw.<br /> 2) Just going through the motions of being on active duty is hard work. Throw in combat operations and things get really tough. The youth of most involved is what makes doing that stuff possible.<br />13. Am in awe of the high quality and professionalism of today's forces.<br />14. Tell people how things used to be and they flat out think I'm lying. God bless them.<br />V/R JWestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-36598872747980409782011-08-05T14:20:10.805-07:002011-08-05T14:20:10.805-07:00The. Best. Rank. In. The Army.
I wore my 'sh...The. Best. Rank. In. The Army.<br /><br /> I wore my 'sham shield' with pride.el chupacabrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16561225364468732743noreply@blogger.com