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To: quadrant
But Marine NCO’s and Staff NCO’s are head and shoulders above anything the Army can field.

I agree with you there although I may have reason for bias. However, everything possible is being done to water down the NCO and SNCO corps. Much of the problem with the O corps, I blame on weak SNCOs not slapping sense into those with shiny on their collar.

I do not know a single Marine unwilling to put their life on the line for another......I know very few willing to put their career on the line for the same.

The other major problem is to view the services, or DoD in general, as some faceless entity......without realizing who actually makes up the entity. In other words, it is easier to blame the org as a whole, or the system, without ever gaining the testicular fortitude to say damn the system and doing something about it.

47 posted on 05/26/2013 4:16:39 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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To: Repeat Offender
Things must have changed since my days in the Corps. The SNCO’s kept everything together. They coached the officers and sat on the faces of the junior NCO’s, esp, I thought, mine.
48 posted on 05/28/2013 11:18:36 AM PDT by quadrant (1o)
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