Grumman-581 wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:23:35 -0500, Emily
wrote:
And cool it with the officer jokes!

The story behind it is this:

If you're in boot camp and you make the mistake of calling you drill
instructor "sir", you usually got a response like this:

"SIR? I'M NOT A ****IN' OFFICER! I DON'T HAVE TO SQUAT TO ****!"

Usually yelled at you a couple of inches from your face...

More often than not, the officers just end up being the equivalent of
management types in the civilian sector... Sometimes you get one who
is competent on technical matters, but that often seems to be the
exception...

Dunno, no one in my family is an actual line officer, so at least two of
them were/are out in the field with everyone else.