gambit
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The kind of low level fraternization you mentioned is not unknown by the public and is tolerated by all the services but your argument sounded awfully 'canned' and like it come from a civilian understanding of how this kind of fraternization come to be: that it is the officer who somehow grant an honor or lesser privileges to his men to be in his presence. The truth is that it is the other way around. It always has and will be the NCOs who make up the backbones of every professional militaries. If an officer earned his NCOs' respect, it will be they who will give the officer the privilege of being within their circle. If anything, this kind of low level fraternization give the young officer even less of an excuse to misspell the rank of those who serve him and withstand his wrath if anything goes wrong.Uh just like what you're doing now? Pretending to be all righteous and knowledgeable about military more than others makes it even less tolerable than a troll. Heck anybody here can find a story or two or a military friend and used their experiences and apply it to here. This is forum not a grammar school. You're taking a small case of misspelling and turning it into a major deal (I know your game, try something else). I worked with my Platoon Sergeant, Squad Leaders, and Team Leaders and other soldiers of my units on more important issues, such as maintenance on vehicles, equipments, condition of the units, and welfare of the soldiers. An officer can delegate his tasks to get things done for the units, but he/she can NOT delegate his/her responsibilities. It is hard and a heavy burden, but never the less, I loved it. At the end of the day, me and my Platoon Sergeant would go to gym and lift weights with some of our other fellow soldiers at Ft. Rucker. After that we either go out to see a movie or go outside the base and eat at the local restaurant. Everybody worked and earned their respect through hard work, bravery, and competence. So, if you still hold proper spelling to be the sole important duty of an officer (maybe in the Air Force), by all means "high speed" go for it.
Details matter and when I had the responsibility of signing off an aircraft as 'Code-One' for one or two pilots to trust their lives to me, I take details seriously. When the aircrew look over the books with my signatures in the appropriate fields, they expect me to take those details seriously, details that they do not know and could kill them and not necessarily in the air. When I converse with an (alleged) officer on an anonymous Internet forum, and I have many times elsewhere, I expect a certain level of sophistication in his language commensurate to his university education and experience in military life. Yours do not measure up. If you are not who you claimed to be, those details will expose you. Be careful.