"Arved Sandstrom" wrote in message ...
"Nice Guy" wrote in message
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Having been both a CPO and an officer I can say from experience, CPOs are
the JOs mentors.

As of 12 years ago, Marine NCO's and staff NCO's filled the same role. We
simply knew more about our MOS than the JO could ever possibly hope to
understand. Plus the JO's swapped roles a lot, so we'd only have a guy as a
FOO for a short period of time, before he might end up on the gunline or
graduate to battery XO finally. The officers were more important in
leadership positions, but when it came to technical advice or actually
deciding on use of the guns, you stuck with the enlisted folks.

It may be different in the Navy. But in the Corps, the enlisted are the
specialists. Officers are the generalists.

It's infinitely worse in the navy. The navy invented
and is still the world's leader in the over-specialist.

Since if the navy was dumb enough to fund Internet,
its seems obvious to most Engineers in the
US that the navy must also have been dumb enough to
fund a lot of other vessels on the bottom.











AHS