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Posted on 03/29/2007 3:05:36 PM PDT by Rodney King
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I'm not an army guy, but don't they ever promote you if you have been in that long?
To: Rodney King
but don't they ever promote you if you have been in that long? He was a Chief Warrant Officer.
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:09:22 PM PDT
by
chesty_puller
(USMC 70-73 3MAF VN 70-71 US Army 75-79 3d Inf Old Guard)
To: Rodney King
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:09:46 PM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
To: Rodney King
Makes me scratch my head and wonder how he got the way he is.
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:10:30 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: chesty_puller
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:10:52 PM PDT
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: Rodney King
What rank do you think a Chief Warrant Officer is Rodney??
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:11:03 PM PDT
by
geo40xyz
(218->121 democRAT's 'OWN DEFEAT' and blood of American soldiers in Iraq will be on their hands)
To: Rodney King
Chief Warrant is a pretty impressive rank - warrant officers are effectively officers but are not commissioned as such. They don't really command but they perform important technical tasks that might oridinarily require a commissioned officer to deal with. For example, helicopter pilots are often warrants.
My nephew once complained warrants are basically enlisted guys with officer perks. He was oversimplifying more than a little of course.
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:11:22 PM PDT
by
AzSteven
(Any animal is gifted by God with claws and teeth for their defense. The good Lord gave us a brain to)
To: Rodney King
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:11:28 PM PDT
by
chesty_puller
(USMC 70-73 3MAF VN 70-71 US Army 75-79 3d Inf Old Guard)
To: Rodney King
yes, three steps above the highest NCO
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:13:01 PM PDT
by
geo40xyz
(218->121 democRAT's 'OWN DEFEAT' and blood of American soldiers in Iraq will be on their hands)
To: Rodney King
Ask any CWO5 and he will tell you it is above a general. Most generals will agree.
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:13:16 PM PDT
by
U S Army EOD
(Support your local EOD Detachment)
To: Rodney King
Chief Warrant, is not a buck private! Some men just stand a little tailer than other equals and here is one of them.
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:13:48 PM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
To: Rodney King
This picture is from 1969.
I remember it well.
Almost surreal to think about it now.
Your fate was determined by some suit picking a numbered
ping pong ball out of a gold-fish bowl.
To: geo40xyz
OK, I apologize and confess my ignorance.
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:14:52 PM PDT
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: U S Army EOD
You ask any SMA, CWO-5,or O-10 and you will get three answers, they all think they are god.
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:15:18 PM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
To: Rodney King
This fella had the best of both worlds,,,A Chief Warrant,,He was Top Dog....In '71 only 3 people in our Company were draftees,,The Draft was winding down,
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:15:54 PM PDT
by
silentreignofheroes
(When the Last Two Prophets are taken, there will be no Tommorrow!)
To: Rodney King
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:15:57 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: AzSteven
For example, helicopter pilots are often warrants. Really? When I was a kid I always wanted to be a helicopter pilot. I figured I had to go to West Point or Annapolis and my mother wouldn't let me (really). Damn, I would have just enlisted if I could have been a helicopter pilot.
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:16:20 PM PDT
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: Rodney King
I think that's the highest you can go without a college degree. A Warrant Officer isn't really an officer in the same sense as a Lieutenant, Captain, Major, or Colonel. It says he was drafted while he was a college student, and maybe he decided he liked the Army and didn't want or need to finish college.
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:16:49 PM PDT
by
lesser_satan
(FRED THOMPSON '08)
To: Rodney King
Valid question from your perspective, but he did well. And, I bet, he carried more weight than much higher ranks where ever he was. Many a Sgt has carried a Lt or Cpt.
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:16:49 PM PDT
by
doodad
To: Rodney King; SandRat
He is CWO. Not too shabby, imho.
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posted on
03/29/2007 3:17:11 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
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