“Please, stay out of the way, Sir...”
I remember a young LT. at NAS Alameda demanding we clean the puke out of his cockpit, then the Master Chief showed up.....
I remember my LT in Iraq in 2008 didn`t like a policy of the BDE CSM. I told her to go `set him straight` about it and let him know who outranks who. She declined and said, `I don`t think that would go over very well.`
I trained a lot of 1LTs to make CPT and helped COLs make decisions that affected the entire maintenance field in Texas.
One of the hardest decisions I had to make was accepting a warrant officer appointment or promotion to SFC from below the zone (in 1978). I took the warrant and for the most part am happy, but many times I wish I had not. I did have some great CWO’s to teach me and I always ran cover for the NCO’s as they were too busy getting the job done to have to worry about the crappy stuff.