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2016 Postmortem

shadowmayor

(1,325 posts)

5. That's BS

Reply to MADem (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 7, 2013, 03:12 AM

Feb 2013

Being a cadet or in OCS is NOT the same as serving in the enlisted ranks. Never saw a single cadet next to me when I was in Iraq, not a one. Enlisted and officers are like cat vs dog, or Cowboys vs Giants or Yankees vs Redsox people - two distinct groups. There's a reason why we referred to the officers (O1 to O10) as zeros.

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Hagel would NOT be the first enlisted SoD...or is the media wrongly ripping Obama? [View all] alp227 Feb 2013 OP

Every line officer, pretty much, starts out "enlisted." MADem Feb 2013 #1

Yes, my father was Public Health Service doctor. HooptieWagon Feb 2013 #2

He might have had a "fork and knife" course. MADem Feb 2013 #3

Possibly that. HooptieWagon Feb 2013 #4

Who can forget Surgeon General "Old Man and the Sea" Koop!!! MADem Feb 2013 #7

I have no idea what is at Bethesda... HooptieWagon Feb 2013 #8

A whole load of stuff! MADem Feb 2013 #9

Interesting...thanks! HooptieWagon Feb 2013 #10

OMG--that's hilarious, and scary!! MADem Feb 2013 #11

I doubt it was the Skipper... HooptieWagon Feb 2013 #13

That's BS shadowmayor Feb 2013 #5

Well, aren't YOU a charmer? MADem Feb 2013 #6

Wrong pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #12