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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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02-20-2010, 08:55 AM
Loose Cannon
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oliverbox
Grunt as an Officer?
He would probably have gone combat Engineers or gone back to the Infantry. He would have probably opted to get his Ranger Tab. I don't see him going Combat Support or Combat Service Support. He's an Infantryman.
He might have gone Engineers and gotten command of a Sapper Platoon or something. Those Combat Engineers are pretty tough and they work hand in hand with the Infantry, and Combat Engineer officers can still go to Ranger School.
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zuludelta
The SF Warrant Officer was formalised in the early 1980s. The following document gives a pretty thorough historical background on the specialisation:
http://www.usawoa.org/woheritage/Hist_SF_WO.pdf
The short summary is basically this: Special Forces needed detachment XOs, but finding lieutenants that had the necessary experience to serve as SF executive officers was hard. Most infantry lieutenants were too young and inexperienced to serve meaningfully in the SF XO role. Special Operations Command initially floated the idea of creating a limited-duty officer program (similar to what the Navy and the Marines have) exclusively for senior SF NCOs, but eventually settled on working in these NCOs within existing warrant officer structure.
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oliverbox
Yeah, the General and the Major were both from 7th group. The General told that story and the Major just laughed and blushed a little. Later we found out that the Major had been the Captain (Team Leader) that had loaned out his captain's bars to his XO. The General had been their Colonel at the time.
They had not planned on telling the Colonel what they had done, but word got around. The Colonel called them into his office and they thought they were going to get chewed out for decieving a high ranking officer of an allied country. The colonel just lauged and said to the Warrant Officer, "Chief, if it'll do you any good, you can trade with me next time."
We all laughed pretty hard. You always laugh when a general tells a joke, but that time we weren't just being polite.
Thanks guys. You came through. I guess I haven't really sold myself on Grunt being an officer. Still I have to wonder why did he leave in the first place? He's the only one to do so. Did he get past over for promotion, or not included in enough missions since he wasn't Ranger Qualified? And then why does he come back?
It seems like the Warrant Officer is the guy who likes being in charge, but must have a different level of respoinsiblity. He's higher than the Senior Sgt, but may have as much training.
I like the idea of him being the Engineer Officer, or some other character to fill that role.
The other thing why is Falcon a LT?
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