Uhh, no. I showed up at NAS JAX in my summer whites (officer candiate summer whites that its) and the enlisted dude there was intent on giving me a blue sticker. I tried to explain to him what I was but he insisted that I accept the blue sticker. I kept the blue sticker for two years. The only thing I got out of it was a salute at the front gate.gatordev said:Ah HA! I knew I wasn't crazy. Of course, this begs the question: did you have that sticker from when you were a scholarship Mid first?
gatordev said:I stand corrected. Thought you guys had blue stickers. Or maybe that was just Rick, who always had a line on something. As for exchange/commissary priveleges, I believe the actual rule is once a month or something like that, since you're reserve/non-active status. Of course, who's going to track that? So you can use it any time you want.
PropStop said:A buddy of mine in the marines said he was taught, "If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, pick it up. If you can't pick it up, paint it."
You're never wrong returning a salute.
Yea, that rule changed a couple years ago when I was a reserve center XO.MarineCFR-->SNA said:The actual rule now is that you may use the exchange and commission as much as you want, active or reserve. This is for the reason you were pointing out that no one can really track how much you use it, so the DOD just did away with limiting. Just throwing that out there.
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Lt. Dan
Nope…both lower than whale smack.Do Midshipmen outrank Officer Candidates (should they somehow encounter one another)?
Nope…both lower than whale smack.
Oh, there's probably a table in the Protocol Manual somewhere that says in which order formations of same should march in Inaugural Parades or some such thing, but I wouldn't confuse that with individual military courtesy obligations.
You'd have to back that up with a reference for me to buy-in,…unless we're still talking about "order of march" for parades...You should tell that to the Army CSM's who think that the CSM of the Army equals a Lt Gen, with all the attendant customs and courtesies, just because that is where they are in the order of precedence. Yeah, not so much......
You'd have to back that up with a reference for me to buy-in,…unless we're still talking about "order of march" for parades...
Here it is, note 5 on page 6. The reason I mentioned it is that some Army NCOs, and at least one Colonel, I knew insisted that since the Sergeant Major of the Army was ahead of Lt Generals in the Army order of precedence he was basically equivalent of one and should be treated as such. This often extended to other CSMs being treated as a rank one less of the officer commanding the unit they were CSM of. No amount of explaining what an order of precedence actually meant could dissuade them of their belief. Reasoning with the Army in general though is often like reasoning with a brick wall.