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Became glamor from Hollywood. Though the term "Sarge" was in effect in use till the US Military became all volunteer. Basically one can be promoted regardless of earning the rank. Unlike today you literally earn the rank. I earn my ranks I much rather you call me by rank. Bing called Sarge might give the perception I'm favoring a soldier or a group of soldiers. Much easier on me to tell them to clean up the latrine, work areas, and what not. Also I have no delay in putting them in harms way to get the mission done or eliminate the threat.

I set the example. They must either meet my standards or exceed my standards. I'm also mentoring them by instilling a mindset similar to mine but not of me. Every individual has a different leadership style. Over time an individual going to like some element of leadership and incorporate into his own. Basically taking the good parts from the NCO's he's been exposed to and making it his own once he achieve his rank.

Yeah it's just a culture thing that's slowly been dying out since the end of the draft, it's more hollywood then anything else. Where the Army and I part ways is when they start calling E6s and E7s "Sargent", like SSgt Reckless above, or any human who's earned his rockers in the Corps calling an individual of a certain rank anything but their rank is seen as pretty damn insulting, especially when it's a demotion. I could NOT get over that the few times I was operating in a joint environment with the Army.

"Excuse me Sargent First Class about this afternoon's training evolution..."
"Oh right that! By the way KMsLastName you know you can just say Sargent right?"
"....but you're a Sargent First Class... not a Sargent, those two things are different. I know Marines are supposed to be dumb but I can count from E5 to E7..."

feeder wrote:
Turns out sometimes people do overcome the millstone of a really stupid name. Well done Chesty Puller.

It's a nickname to clarify. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller. So called because the man had a barrel chest to make you thing he had a keg of beer between his shoulders. All that work killing things and hauling around enough medals to reforge into a battleship.



A fun bar bet if you're around Marines is to ask how many /service/ crosses Chesty had. This is an important distinction for this bet. Each service branch has it's own Service Cross (the Marines and Navy share the Navy Cross) which is the second highest possible award for valor. (Each branch has it's own design for the Medal of Honor as well, with the Marines and Navy sharing a design again) Chesty was awarded five Navy Crosses AND an Army Distinguished Service Cross, giving him six service crosses in total. It's a good way to win a beer, especially off of younger devil pups.

That stare... That man has seen some crazy things.

 purplefood wrote:
Who exactly is in a horse's chain of command?

Other horses and Bronies?

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
That stare... That man has seen some crazy things.

The Banana Wars, WW2, Korea, and the entire rank structure from private to general. Yep.

 Easy E wrote:

 purplefood wrote:
Who exactly is in a horse's chain of command?

Other horses and Bronies?

The horse's direct partner if it has one (when Cav was still a thing it was a 1 to 1 relationship like a dog and handler team now) is the horse's connection to the COC.

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=95430217532

Am i the only one who thinks he looks kinda happy in that pic?

 Easy E wrote:

 purplefood wrote:
Who exactly is in a horse's chain of command?

Other horses and Bronies?

Well, Caligula made his favourite horse a senator, so I imagine he's in there somewhere.

Full props to reckless. That hard work must have left her feeling...

*puts on sunglasses*

...A little hoarse.

Let's not trot out a lot of puns in here.

Alright guys no need to keep beating a dead horse here

I was wondering how long it would take you fethers to start horsing around in this thread.

My mane concern is how much longer they'll go on for.

Ok guys, round it up and lets get the horse back on the road.

We're just looking foalish by this point.

Whinny you guys going to give up the puns?

I swear the mods need to ride herd on your people more.


Side note: I haven't seen this many horse puns outside a MLP thread in ages!

I dunno if I can take any mare of this.

I think we should pony up and head to a new thread.

Yup, we'd better hoof it.

Cowboy up and go with it

I thik we should stop, we dont want to look a gift horse in the mouth

I vote neigh! This thread is fun.

Well no one ever accused Dakka OT of being trail blazers.

In B forelock.

That is pretty badd-ass. The statue is awesome as well.

 Alex Kolodotschko wrote:
In B forelock.

Ah, the only pun posted so far that didn't make me want to put snakes in the poster's car. Well done.

You could say horse puns behoove him.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
You could say horse puns behoove him.

Cottonmouths for your vehicle.

I'm glad I don't live in the USA. Here in England we're far too polite for such violent behaviour, snakebombing and the like.
The worst he'd deserve here for telling bad jokes would be a withering glare..

 Seaward wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
You could say horse puns behoove him.

Cottonmouths for your vehicle.

Come on mate, hold your horses.


And Alex, you could probably justify the ultimate British snub for most of these jokes (that isn't a soccer riot. A dismissive sniff while having a sip of tea.