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I caught wind of an email from the new CSM or someone from CJTF 101 stating that if you didn't switch over to the 101st on your right side, then you weren't a "team player" and you would have to come to tell him personally why you didn't want to, and so on.
"He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart"
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MADHATTER82 (5/13/2008)
I caught wind of an email from the new CSM or someone from CJTF 101 stating that if you didn't switch over to the 101st on your right side, then you weren't a "team player" and you would have to come to tell him personally why you didn't want to, and so on.I still see some 82nd patches on the right side around here. I get asked all the time why I dont wear a combat patch. I tell them its because I dont have to and that a patch doesnt make the person.
"The sergeant is the Army." - General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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They tried this shit with my unit (Task Force Roadrunner 5/6 INF, 5th Mech) on my second all-expense paid trip to SWA. After day 30, the S-5 bozo who came with us to take pictures and send back to Polk had the 1SG in a frenzy about everyone wearing the damn 5th Mech Diamond. It was sooooo stupid, and I said I ain't changing my 1st ID patch, bite me. So Top and I went round and round, but I kept quoting AR 670-1, and he finally relented. So the 5 or 6 buddies of mine(who I served with at Op DS/DS) who came from Germany when we closed down that post after the wall came down all wore our 1st ID patches while the rest of the TF ridiculously pointed their right shoulder at the camera so everyone at Polk could get a wiff of how stupid things got.....
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Oh the parallels between the military and the civilian world.
What really amazes me is that with all the rhetoric about todays military being the brightest and most educated, I am constantly amazed at how surprised the leadership is when these bright and educated troops are able to show them (the leadership) that they really do have an idea about how things really are and are able to prove it by knowing the regs.
And the military wonders why many of us leave the service.
Its only paranoia when they prove you wrong.
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| It sounds like.....chickenshit. Chickenshit - The generation of maximum anxiety over matters of minimum significance. - Stephen Ambrose from Band of Brothers Chickenshit - Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistance on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances. Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse - or bull - or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously. Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war. - Paul Fussell from Wartime
Aim small; miss small.
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I have to agree with the other posters who've basically stated that, this NCO's chain of command needs to concentrate on more important issues than this one.
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Agree with the majority on this one. There was a 1st LT at Bragg who was a very down to earth, unassuming kind of guy. He didn't have a combat patch, which at the time made him in the minority (right after DS). I had one and wore it proudly. He moved on up to battalion, and I stopped by his office one day when I was on battalion CQ. As I walked in, I saw a newly-laundered Class A jacket hanging up on a rack in the office, and there was a RSSI sewn on it. I noticed his BDU's still had no RSSI, and I asked him why. He just shrugged.
This experience made a profound effect on this young trooper, and I grew up a little that day, realizing a little more that you can't judge a book by it's cover. I wish I was as humble as that 1st LT, even now, 15 years later.
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Reminds me a little of my time.
Division said that you will wear the ABN badge since you are assigned to an ABN unit, and "encouraged" you to wear everything else you were authorized.
When my 1SG and CO saw be wearing class As with all my authorized awards, they gave me crap for wearing nothing but jump wings on my BDUs.
Nowhere near the level that this guy caught though.
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