What Was Your Rank?

Canis-Lupus said:
You R legit, don't matter if U were AD, AR or NG, or US (draftee) if U did 30 days and got a DD214/honorable discharge, U R a Vet, so cancel your honarary membership! My fave 'missions' were training U folks (our Division's round-out BDE) during your 30 days active. "Put up the GP-Medium troops!" "Don't bother SFC/E7 M, we parked the RV's over by the BBQ pit" Was like 30 days leave for us active-duty brain-washed types.

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Yep, always scouting out areas for when the SHTF on November 6, 2012. Yes I was a SFC E-7, but I was not a Platoon Sergeant, I was an Area Communication District Maintenance Supervisor. Funny thing when VA wanted my DD 214 and the clerk gave me a funny look, he asked, is this correct? I said it is an official US Document. He told me he had never seen anyone spend fifteen years in the Army never leaving your duty station as a 31 M being promoted from E-1 to E-6 Multichannel Operations Specialist and being promoted to an E-7 32Z40 Area Communication District Maintenance Supervisor but never shows you ever worked in maintenance. I said call the Department of the Army in DC and ask them, an hour later he returned and told me, the Army said if that what the DD 214 says, then this is what he done. I shrugged my shoulders and said I cannot help it. I am 100% disabled by VA, SSD in combination with Department of Labor from my military injuries which I'm not allowed to talk about that either except for what's in my Army record and Medical Records.
 
I was in the USAF during the Vietnam era. Was in for 4 years got 3 stripes (E-4). At times I wish I had stayed in.
 
Air Force...fairly elevated grade (aka rank) but that status isn't relevant to non-military situations in retirement.
 
Corporal E-4...
Then demoted to E-1.
I would have been promoted to Sergeant E-5, but the C.O. (Captain) was a real jerkoff.

I was the Captains personal driver when serving in the California Army National Guard and one very hot summer during annual training he unexpectedly ordered me to go into a makeshift CS gas (tear gas) hut without a gas mask for 'training purposes' (which I had done before in basic training).
Unfortunately I did not bring my eyeglasses with me for annual training and I was wearing my contact lenses at the time. I also had no way to safely remove & store the contact lenses with my dirty hands d/t days of training out in the field.
FYI; CS gas can be very dangerous to the eyes of contact lens wearers, it's molecules can get trapped under the lens and burn a hole in your corneas.

When I advised the Captain of my contact lenses situation, he got all pi$$y with me and insisted that I still go into the tear gas hut.
After once again trying to calmly explain my situation to him, he huffed and puffed and then he ordered me to wear an older (untested) gas mask into the tear gas hut that was lying on a table near the huts entrance.

I flatly refused.

Later on when we were alone in the Humvee, he gave me a royal a$$ chewing.
He bloviated and yelled that I "made him look bad" and that I was "being insubordinate".
He then further threatened me with all kinds of bullcrap, including demotion.

I looked him squarely in the eyes and I told him to go F himself.
No Bueno.
But it sure felt great & the look on his face was priceless!
LMAO! =-)

Afterwards he proceeded with all of his threats. I was demoted to E-1, Replaced as his driver and given $hit details for the remainder of annual training. When we got back from annual training he ordered me into his office. He then bloviated to me some more and advised me to "square myself away" if I ever hoped to make E-4 again.

It was then and there that I demanded to get out of the Guard.
He refused, made more threats, blah, blah, blah.
I let him know exactly what I thought of him and I never showed up for drill again (AWOL).

I was eventually placed into the inactive ready reserves and I later got out with a general discharge under honorable conditions as an E-3.
It was somehow later changed to an honorable discharge years later.
 
I was in the Army from 1966-1970, and was an E1, E2, E3, E5, and E6 (skipped E4). MOS 98G4L80 (Vietnamese Voice Intercept).
I also served in the Navy Reserve as a 1635 Intelligence O1 through O3, from which I retired.
Served in Viet Nam (67-68) and Beirut (1983 aboard the LPH2 Iwo Jima).
 
I retired from the Army after 22 years of service as a CW3 (Chief Warrant Officer 3). I turned down a promotion to CW4 in order to retire when I wanted to.
 
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