Anyone help me out with drill and ceremonies.

Tangmo said:

And so what hole would that be the players have dug for themselves and would need to climb out of, as you state it from over there on the military right.

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Ever hear of the "War on Drugs?" The "War on Poverty?" The "War on Terror?" These are all issues without end. All three are poorly titled, because there really is no end game; and wars should have a beginning and an end.

What some football players have chosen to do is without end. They may as well label their movement the War on Racism. Twenty years from now unarmed blacks will still be shot along side unarmed whites, and still insisting that it is entirely because of their skin. Blaming everything and anything on race has become a worn out and tired tradition. And since there is no end game to this, I expect these football players to still be on their knees twenty years from now. That is the hole.

And let's not forget what really jumped started this mess. Black Lives Matter can be sourced to two separate events.

- ...The shooting of Trayvon Martin by a non-cop, who was shockingly acquitted for his murder. Senseless acquittals and non-guilties happen every day. Just look at O.J.

- ...The shooting of Michael Brown, who just happened to have shoved a store clerk and robbed him for cigars and then got aggressive with the cop. The "he stopped him cuz he's a black man" was quite ironic.

The immediate default to jump to "race" and "victimhood" has put everything ever since under a microscope in which the black community hope they can actually find racism. And it is quite telling that most of the protests seem to always come out of poor neighborhoods where a lack of education and ignorance thrive. And where do you think most of these black football players come from? They come from a culture of victimhood.

The taking of the knee is senseless because it is not grounded in a solution. The Civil Rights Movement was about enacting laws that guaranteed civil rights. Is the taking of the knee about making others say black lives matter? At what point will they decide that black lives matter enough to move on?

There is no end game because the game lacks base.

Tangmo said:

This one walked in with Pence and walked out with Pence. Which is a reason I said I think he may also have been doubling as some sort of body security to the vp, as it were. Also.

A state adjutant general is for sure not in a position to execute a launch order by a Caligula CnC. However, methinks if this particular state first consul were in the position to execute a launch order he'd execute the order. Which helps to explain why this general and the mindset of a typical state two-star NG commander functions at that level and locale rather than at a higher level or station.

General Kelly and General Mattis and LTG McMaster might tackle their CnC instead of executing a launch order by him. Maybe definitely tackle him. Four gorillas in a jungle kind of brawl would be quite a sight in the Situation Room eh. Sen. Corker might possibly throw himself into the middle of it too.

Maybe get the chief justice to declare the king of the hill. 82nd Airborne secure the secret service if need be. The Old Guard infantry regiment is much closer and already on the ground. Trumpeteers can meanwhile sound off another round of booing of John McCain while Potus cusses out disrespect of the anthem and the flag. Gametime seems to be approaching faster than anyone had realized it could.

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That’s quite the fairytale your building. Well done

braindrain said:

That’s quite the fairytale your building. Well done

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My building? I dunno what my building might have to do with it. It's a cool building all the same thx. Regardless I'm almost always pleased when an E-7 nco approves of my work product -- especially when he's going on E-8 next year (hopefully, as you'd noted earlier).

The last graf would be what's called conjecture. Everything above it (except for Sen. Corker of course) is based on either news reports or my own discussion of the nuclear launch chain of command. Neither do I suggest Pence as CinC would try any such thing as a first use or first strike nuclear launch. The nuclear weapons thingy is entirely about Caligula himself.

Ideally this Caligula would have a more humane demise than Caligula I had to have imposed on him. I would expect so in either event.

MSgt said:

Ever hear of the "War on Drugs?" The "War on Poverty?" The "War on Terror?" These are all issues without end. All three are poorly titled, because there really is no end game; and wars should have a beginning and an end.

What some football players have chosen to do is without end. They may as well label their movement the War on Racism. Twenty years from now unarmed blacks will still be shot along side unarmed whites, and still insisting that it is entirely because of their skin. Blaming everything and anything on race has become a worn out and tired tradition. And since there is no end game to this, I expect these football players to still be on their knees twenty years from now. That is the hole.

And let's not forget what really jumped started this mess. Black Lives Matter can be sourced to two separate events.

- ...The shooting of Trayvon Martin by a non-cop, who was shockingly acquitted for his murder. Senseless acquittals and non-guilties happen every day. Just look at O.J.

- ...The shooting of Michael Brown, who just happened to have shoved a store clerk and robbed him for cigars and then got aggressive with the cop. The "he stopped him cuz he's a black man" was quite ironic.

The immediate default to jump to "race" and "victimhood" has put everything ever since under a microscope in which the black community hope they can actually find racism. And it is quite telling that most of the protests seem to always come out of poor neighborhoods where a lack of education and ignorance thrive. And where do you think most of these black football players come from? They come from a culture of victimhood.

The taking of the knee is senseless because it is not grounded in a solution. The Civil Rights Movement was about enacting laws that guaranteed civil rights. Is the taking of the knee about making others say black lives matter? At what point will they decide that black lives matter enough to move on?

There is no end game because the game lacks base.

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Rightwingers and other Conservatives who love the Confederacy refuse to discuss race relations as they evolved before President Johnson and his time in the White House. Conservatives praise Robert E. Lee while cussing LBJ.

Conservatives say with a straight face that Nathan Bedford Forrest who founded the KKK was a brilliant Confederate general while ignoring Ulysses S. Grant, Wm. T. Sherman, Philip Sheridan, to include George Meade who defeated Lee at Gettysburg -- among other professional Civil War generals and admirals such as Farragut and his brother by adoption Admiral Porter.

There are lessons in history even for those who refuse to learn or to inquire. History provides all of us with a guide to the present NFL protest demonstrations which now include the NBA. We are talking the long haul here....



In 1619 the first African slaves arrived in Virginia. In 1793 the fugitive slave law was enacted mandating the return of slaves who had escaped and crossed state lines.






In 1857 Scotus ruled in the Dred Scott case that Congress did not have the right to ban slavery in states and, furthermore, that slaves were not citizens. In 1863 Potus Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. In 1865 the Ku Klux Klan was formed in Tennessee by Confederate racist murderers who were never subjected to the rule of law; the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting slavery.



1865-1866
Black Codes were passed by diehard Confederate states, drastically restricting the rights of newly freed slaves.

1867
The Reconstruction Acts were passed, deliniating the former Confederacy into five military districts and guaranteeing the civil rights of freed slaves.

1868
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, defining citizenship. Individuals born or naturalized in the United States became American citizens, including those born as slaves. The 14th nullified the Dred Scott Case which had ruled that blacks were not citizens.

In 1870 the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving blacks the right to vote. In 1896 however Scotus ruled in that racial segregation is constitutional which led in turn to the repressive Jim Crow laws in the crushed Confederacy.

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In 1931 nine black teenagers were indicted in Scottsboro, Ala., on charges of having raped two white women.

Although the evidence was of course paltry, the southern jury sentenced them to death. The Supreme Court overturned their convictions twice; each time Alabama retried 'em them and found 'em guilty-guilty. In a third trial four of the Scottsboro Boys were freed but five were sentenced to long prison terms.



In 1947 Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball's color barrier when he was signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers by Branch Rickey. In 1948 and although African Americans had participated in every major U.S. war, it was not until after World War II that President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order racially integrating the U.S. armed forces.

Scotus in 1954 unanimously ruled that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional.


In 1955 a young black boy, Emmett Till, was brutally murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. Two white men charged with the crime were of course acquitted by an all-white jury. The two barbarians later boasted about committing the murder. The public outrage generated by the case did help to initiate the civil rights movement.


In 1960 four black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, began a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Six months later the "Greensboro Four" were served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter. The fact triggered many similar nonviolent protests throughout the South. In 1962 James Meredith became the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. President Kennedy had to send 5,000 federal troops due to rioting.


In 1963:

Martin Luther King was arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala. Dr. King wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail," which advocated nonviolent civil disobedience.

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom had about 250,000 people. It wuz the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital. Martin Luther King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. The march created momentum for civil rights legislation.

Despite Governor George Wallace physically blocking their way, Vivian Malone and James Hood registered for classes at the University of Alabama.

Four young black girls attending Sunday school were killed when a bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a popular location for civil rights meetings. Riots erupted in Birmingham, leading to the deaths of two more black youths.



In 1964:

The bodies of three civil-rights workers were found buried in an earthen dam. Murdered by the KKK, James E. Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner had been working to register black voters in Mississippi.

President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. It prohibited discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin.

Martin Luther King received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sidney Poitier won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in Lilies of the Field. He is the first African American to win the award.



In 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn.

President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.


In 1992 the first race riots in decades erupted in south-central Los Angeles after a jury acquitted four white police officers for the videotaped beating of African-American Rodney King.

In 2003 in Grutter v. Bollinger, the most important affirmative action decision since the 1978 Bakke case, the Supreme Court (5–4) upheld the University of Michigan Law School's policy, ruling that race can be one of many factors considered by colleges when selecting their students because it furthers "a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body."


In 2006 in Parents v. Seattle and Meredith v. Jefferson, affirmative action suffered a setback when a bitterly divided court rules, 5 to 4, that programs in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., which tried to maintain diversity in schools by considering race when assigning students to schools, are unconstitutional.

Continuing....



2008

On November 4, Barack Obama, becomes the first African American to be elected president of the United States, defeating Republican candidate, Sen. John McCain.

2009
Barack Obama Democrat from Chicago, becomes the first African-American president and the country's 44th president.

On February 2, the U.S. Senate confirms, with a vote of 75 to 21, Eric H. Holder, Jr., as Attorney General of the United States. Holder is the first African American to serve as Attorney General.



In 2012 a Florida jury acquitted the murderer George Zimmerman in the premeditated shooting death of Trayvon Martin, which incited an intense national debate about race, guns, self-defense and the homicide committed by the wannabe cop.


In 2014 Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old was shot and killed in Ferguson, Mo., by Darren Wilson. The grand jury decision not to indict the fatass Wilson incited protests in Ferguson and cities across the U.S., including Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Boston.

The protests continued to spread throughout the country after a Staten Island grand jury decided in December not to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner. Garner died after being placed in a chokehold by the goon Pantaleo in July.



Timeline: Dozens of unarmed African Americans killed since Ferguson

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...can-americans-killed-since-ferguson/31375795/


https://www.infoplease.com/spot/timeline-key-moments-black-history#


History shows us that equal justice under law is a process rather than a destination. Concomitantly, history also shows us that perhaps over a longer time a definitive destination may eventuate as attainable. Accordingly, demanding we submit specific immediate goals or a schedule is foolhardy.

MSgt said:

Ever hear of the "War on Drugs?" The "War on Poverty?" The "War on Terror?" These are all issues without end. All three are poorly titled, because there really is no end game; and wars should have a beginning and an end.

What some football players have chosen to do is without end. They may as well label their movement the War on Racism. Twenty years from now unarmed blacks will still be shot along side unarmed whites, and still insisting that it is entirely because of their skin. Blaming everything and anything on race has become a worn out and tired tradition. And since there is no end game to this, I expect these football players to still be on their knees twenty years from now. That is the hole.

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There is no end game because the game lacks base.

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You should see my fruit salad and chest medals too when I wear 'em from all those wars and then some. You omitted the several years of protests against the Vietnam War to include numerous demonstrations of a varied sort in the usual places. On special dayze of reminiscence when I pin 'em all on I get weighted decidedly to the left.

The war on African Americans by the extremist WASP Americans makes the Long March look like a short hike. It took a couple of thousand years to eliminate slavery yet slavery continues to hang on by its fingernails in various places by various vile elites.

Back when, the Romans enslaved on an equal opportunity basis, i.e., all races, colors, creed and so on rather than targeting a particular class or group of humanity. The Hundred Years War was peanuts compared to the WASP hard core in the USA and their eternal proclivities against black Americans.

The sooner immigration overruns the legacy of black slavery in the white USA the better. Put the hard core extremist WASP American palefaces in the only place they deserve to be, i.e., in the distinct minority. It is the only way to do it.

Problem solved.

Hard work, persistence and patience required. Rightwingers need not apply.

Tangmo said:

You should see my fruit salad and chest medals too when I wear 'em from all those wars and then some. You omitted the several years of protests against the Vietnam War to include numerous demonstrations of a varied sort in the usual places. On special dayze of reminiscence when I pin 'em all on I get weighted decidedly to the left.

The war on African Americans by the extremist WASP Americans makes the Long March look like a short hike. It took a couple of thousand years to eliminate slavery yet slavery continues to hang on by its fingernails in various places by various vile elites.

Back when, the Romans enslaved on an equal opportunity basis, i.e., all races, colors, creed and so on rather than targeting a particular class or group of humanity. The Hundred Years War was peanuts compared to the WASP hard core in the USA and their eternal proclivities against black Americans.

The sooner immigration overruns the legacy of black slavery in the white USA the better. Put the hard core extremist WASP American palefaces in the only place they deserve to be, i.e., in the distinct minority. It is the only way to do it.

Problem solved.

Hard work, persistence and patience required. Rightwingers need not apply.

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Yes, very poetic. Unfortunately, also very irrelevant to the issue. A walk through history is pointless. The vast majority of black people have never even experienced what catches headlines. This would be another area where minorities create self-fulfilled prophesies as they imagine "team black" against the world. The amazing thing is that people don't even recognize that this attitude always come out of poor and uneducated neighborhoods. Living in the past is a crutch.

And, again, the black community refuses to accept a certain responsibility. Playing the never-ending victim has been quite worn out. For example, screaming about Brown being unarmed and launching into protest, only helped the community ignore the fact that Brown had just robbed a store and was aggressive towards the cop. "F" the police right? Who cares that he was a criminal. The first ones to make that issue about color was black people in the community who chose to ignore the facts.

- Who taught Brown that being aggressive towards cops was appropriate?
- Who taught Brown that pushing store clerks and robbing them was appropriate?

Along comes a "whitey" cop and the community plays the victim. Nah, the black community doesn't get to create such a mood within their culture and then expect cops not to be concerned. And this BS is what they based Black Lives Matter on. Some of the incidences tat have occurred since are more fitting of the protest. Perhaps if black people in poor uneducated neighborhoods weren't so quick to define everything that ever happens to them as a white/black thing, certain protests would be given due attention. But I guess if Christians can imagine their "war on Christmas," black people can have their "war on African Americans."

Tangmo said:

My building? I dunno what my building might have to do with it. It's a cool building all the same thx. Regardless I'm almost always pleased when an E-7 nco approves of my work product -- especially when he's going on E-8 next year (hopefully, as you'd noted earlier).

The last graf would be what's called conjecture. Everything above it (except for Sen. Corker of course) is based on either news reports or my own discussion of the nuclear launch chain of command. Neither do I suggest Pence as CinC would try any such thing as a first use or first strike nuclear launch. The nuclear weapons thingy is entirely about Caligula himself.

Ideally this Caligula would have a more humane demise than Caligula I had to have imposed on him. I would expect so in either event.

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English is not your first language. Is it.

Building was used as a verb. Not a noun.

Tangmo said:

Continuing....



2008

On November 4, Barack Obama, becomes the first African American to be elected president of the United States, defeating Republican candidate, Sen. John McCain.

2009
Barack Obama Democrat from Chicago, becomes the first African-American president and the country's 44th president.

On February 2, the U.S. Senate confirms, with a vote of 75 to 21, Eric H. Holder, Jr., as Attorney General of the United States. Holder is the first African American to serve as Attorney General.



In 2012 a Florida jury acquitted the murderer George Zimmerman in the premeditated shooting death of Trayvon Martin, which incited an intense national debate about race, guns, self-defense and the homicide committed by the wannabe cop.


In 2014 Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old was shot and killed in Ferguson, Mo., by Darren Wilson. The grand jury decision not to indict the fatass Wilson incited protests in Ferguson and cities across the U.S., including Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Boston.

The protests continued to spread throughout the country after a Staten Island grand jury decided in December not to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner. Garner died after being placed in a chokehold by the goon Pantaleo in July.



Timeline: Dozens of unarmed African Americans killed since Ferguson

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...can-americans-killed-since-ferguson/31375795/


https://www.infoplease.com/spot/timeline-key-moments-black-history#


History shows us that equal justice under law is a process rather than a destination. Concomitantly, history also shows us that perhaps over a longer time a definitive destination may eventuate as attainable. Accordingly, demanding we submit specific immediate goals or a schedule is foolhardy.

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Three posts that starts of with blathering about "conservatives" and misrepresents the stance off those here who actually understand military history in the Civil War.

The remainder is little more than off topic regurgitated information that has nothing to do with dr i ll and ceremonies.

Tangmo said:

You should see my fruit salad and chest medals too when I wear 'em from all those wars and then some. You omitted the several years of protests against the Vietnam War to include numerous demonstrations of a varied sort in the usual places. On special dayze of reminiscence when I pin 'em all on I get weighted decidedly to the left.

The war on African Americans by the extremist WASP Americans makes the Long March look like a short hike. It took a couple of thousand years to eliminate slavery yet slavery continues to hang on by its fingernails in various places by various vile elites.

Back when, the Romans enslaved on an equal opportunity basis, i.e., all races, colors, creed and so on rather than targeting a particular class or group of humanity. The Hundred Years War was peanuts compared to the WASP hard core in the USA and their eternal proclivities against black Americans.

The sooner immigration overruns the legacy of black slavery in the white USA the better. Put the hard core extremist WASP American palefaces in the only place they deserve to be, i.e., in the distinct minority. It is the only way to do it.

Problem solved.

Hard work, persistence and patience required. Rightwingers need not apply.

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Wow a black racist blaming whitey for everything, who would have ever thunk it?

braindrain said:

That’s quite the fairytale your building. Well done

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Tangmo said:

My building? I dunno what my building might have to do with it. It's a cool building all the same thx. Regardless I'm almost always pleased when an E-7 nco approves of my work product -- especially when he's going on E-8 next year (hopefully, as you'd noted earlier).

The last graf would be what's called conjecture. Everything above it (except for Sen. Corker of course) is based on either news reports or my own discussion of the nuclear launch chain of command. Neither do I suggest Pence as CinC would try any such thing as a first use or first strike nuclear launch. The nuclear weapons thingy is entirely about Caligula himself.

Ideally this Caligula would have a more humane demise than Caligula I had to have imposed on him. I would expect so in either event.

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Fledermaus said:

English is not your first language. Is it.

Building was used as a verb. Not a noun.

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You're building.

vs

Your building.




USMC Gunnery Sergeant E-7 Fledermaus retired.




braindrain is an E-7 also, on active duty (at DP for the moment).


Army Sergeant First Class E-7


Two peas in a pod eh. Always ready for the pickin youse are.

Tangmo said:

You're building.

vs

Your building.

USMC Gunnery Sergeant E-7 Fledermaus retired.

braindrain is an E-7 also, on active duty (at DP for the moment).

Army Sergeant First Class E-7

Two peas in a pod eh. Always ready for the pickin youse are.

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Another nonsense post.

Don't blame his grammar for you misunderstanding.

Fledermaus said:

Another nonsense post.

Don't blame his grammar for you misunderstanding.

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"For your misunderstanding [of it]" would be closer to the correct form which is definitely the best we could expect from over there. The post is baiting or it is ignorance or it is both. Mostly it is illiterate.

Too many of youse over there in military retirement or on active duty are the same as Trump, i.e., aggressive and wrong but unrelenting and juvenile in your absolute certainty youse can't possibly be either.





Carry on.

Tangmo said:

"For your misunderstanding [of it]" would be closer to the correct form which is definitely the best we could expect from over there. The post is baiting or it is ignorance or it is both. Mostly it is illiterate.

Too many of youse over there in military retirement or on active duty are the same as Trump, i.e., aggressive and wrong but unrelenting and juvenile in your absolute certainty youse can't possibly be either.

Carry on.

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You are the last person who should lecture about grammar and/or spelling....

Fledermaus said:

You are the last person who should lecture about grammar and/or spelling....

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Gunnery Sergeant E-7

Tangmo said:

Gunnery Sergeant E-7

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Not sure why you keep posting this....my understanding is that E-7 in the USMC is a very respectable rank to attain.

Skeptic Bob said:

Well that is a bit of trivia I didn't know. But then that predates my enlistment by a few years.

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They were still doing it in 1977 when I was in the army. I got direct deposit as soon as possible. While everyone was standing in line I was on my way to whatever I was going to do. I think direct deposit was just becoming an option. Not all banks were doing it then I had to change banks.

PIPEWRENCH said:

They were still doing it in 1977 when I was in the army. I got direct deposit as soon as possible. While everyone was standing in line I was on my way to whatever I was going to do. I think direct deposit was just becoming an option. Not all banks were doing it then I had to change banks.

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Every bank I tried had direct creditor withdrawal on deposit.

Couldn't win then or now.

Go Army go money. :doh

Polar Bum said:

Not sure why you keep posting this....my understanding is that E-7 in the USMC is a very respectable rank to attain.

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Here's the rest of it...



Master Gunnery Sergeant E-9



One gunnery sergeant is effectively the junior rank of it and the other is definitely the Master rank of it. (There of course is no formal designation of a 'junior' rank of GySgt but that is effectively what E-7 is in MC.)

So there's Gunnery Sergeant E-7 and after that comes Master Gunnery Sergeant E-9. Not for everyone however. All the same I'd bet one is as illiterate as the other. The only real difference is that one barks louder but they both bark.

Which reminds me of a neighbor I had who rented a hunting dog he called Sarge. I'll tell ya about it sometime.

Tangmo said:

Here's the rest of it...

Master Gunnery Sergeant E-9




One gunnery sergeant is effectively the junior rank of it and the other is definitely the Master rank of it. (There of course is no formal designation of a 'junior' rank of GySgt but that is effectively what E-7 is in MC.)

So there's Gunnery Sergeant E-7 and after that comes Master Gunnery Sergeant E-9. Not for everyone however. All the same I'd bet one is as illiterate as the other. The only real difference is that one barks louder but they both bark.

Which reminds me of a neighbor I had who rented a hunting dog he called Sarge. I'll tell ya about it sometime.

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Yes, I am quite aware of the rank structure of US ground forces; but the rank of E-7 and above is considered a Senior Non Commissioned Officer...though I am not sure how you come by the assertion that they are illiterate....perhaps you could elaborate?

Polar Bum said:

Yes, I am quite aware of the rank structure of US ground forces; but the rank of E-7 and above is considered a Senior Non Commissioned Officer...though I am not sure how you come by the assertion that they are illiterate....perhaps you could elaborate?

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Do you want to hear about my neighbor who rented out a hunting dog he called Sarge or not hear about it.

I'd put the proviso on it that youse would have to behave but youse ain't doing very well as we go along here.

No elaborating necessary as all you'd need to do is scroll due north. Thanks for playing anyhow.

Tangmo said:

Gunnery Sergeant E-7

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Annnnnd?

Polar Bum said:

Yes, I am quite aware of the rank structure of US ground forces; but the rank of E-7 and above is considered a Senior Non Commissioned Officer...though I am not sure how you come by the assertion that they are illiterate....perhaps you could elaborate?

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Technically E-6 and above in the Marines are Staff Non-Commissioned Officers.

He is trying to say I am a loser for not making E-9 in twenty years. A ridiculous assertion.

But he keeps making it.

That and he keeps referring to "Junior" Gunnery Sergeant. A rank that never existed and no one knowledgeable about Marine ranks would refer to.

Just a couple of reasons many question whether he ever served.

Tangmo said:

Do you want to hear about my neighbor who rented out a hunting dog he called Sarge or not hear about it.

I'd put the proviso on it that youse would have to behave but youse ain't doing very well as we go along here.

No elaborating necessary as all you'd need to do is scroll due north. Thanks for playing anyhow.

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TRANSLATION: Talking **** again about NCOs.