You the top dog of what s called a Fire Team when you are a Corporal right. Like a three - Four men Recon team plus you? Heard that was did a lot in the Gulf War up until Bosina/ Kosovo buy the Us military
lol I remember going to jump school as a young corporal in the Corps. No drinking policy but I remember buying my whole squad bay a few handles of vodka and setting up this privates projector. Good times. Yes jump masters, I am slick and you never caught me, you sure came close though.
I was a Corporal and I hated it. I also realized people’s true colors when I got the rank, too. NCOs loved giving me the shit details and shitty soldiers to be in charge of, and some of (whom I thought were) my friends quickly had issues with authority. Fortunately for me, I made Sergeant and PCSd to a better unit.
Bro how does all that shit work man y’all make this shot sound interesting af love the men and woman who serve not so much the leaders in charge god bless
There were two kinds of Corporals in the 1980s. One was a Department of the Army Corporal. The orders were issued by the DA for promotion. The rank would stay with the soldier during a duty change. The other was a temporary promotion of an E4 who was in a Team Leader slot for more than 60 days. The Battalion commander had promotion authority The moment the soldier was moved to a non leadership duty position, they reverted to a Specialist. Either way glad a I went straight from E4 Specialist to E5. Corporals because they technically "leaders" cant hang out with their buddies or the can get fraternization charges. And Sergeants dont want them around. I agree worst rank to be in the Army.
I don't know why people cry about more responsibility. I was filling an E-5 supervisor role as a Corporal in the Marines and it taught me a lot. Ran a shop of ~20 Marines or so and didn't get extra pay for it. Had to do quality assurance as well and inspect all of the maintenance being done throughout the day. Time flies when you're busy. People like to spend their time skating and don't grow or develop any leadership skills because they spent years avoiding it.
LOL as 11B1P in the 82nd Replacement Detachment, saw a Corporal who transferring into the 82nd Airborne that there were no Corporals in Division. Never saw a Corporal mugging around in the 82nd Airborne, but I saw plenty of Specialist who served as Team Leaders until they got to BLC back in the late 1980's.
I'd always get a kick out of the semi-sarcastic respect I'd give to soldiers I knew who made CPL. I'd lock it up tighter talking to them then my 1stSGT and only ever address them as "corporal".
The biggest difference between cpl and sgt is promotion points. With enough promotion points you can go from spc to sgt (or in most cases to cpl as a placeholder until you get promoted to sgt). But for the ones who don't have the promotion points they have to frantically scramble to get the promotion points to hit e5
My units chaplain is a major and I was a lcpl, he would always sit and eat with us during mess and pray for us, I’m not religious but best experience ever
@@bangochupchup Australia is slightly different, he had 1 crown which makes him a major, joked with him back in the Korean War he probably fought against my chinese grandpa whom was a captain and he was a private, by the time I got my australia discharge papers I was senior nco, world is getting really small
I would say its one of the cooler ranks. Who said you only had to choose your buddies or the officers. Get in good with both and you increase your chances of opportunities and relationships. Connections are very important. (Edit- last sentence added)
As of 2021 In the Army you get Corporal after completing BLC. BLC is a requirement for E5. So an easy way to tell the difference between a Specialist and Corporal, one is promotable the other is not. The Corporal is also officially a junior NCO, the Specialist isn't.
When I was on active duty the promotion points were maxed out, so I was stuck in a long line of people who were waiting for promotion to E5. Our company needed NCOs to fill Team Leader slots, so I got promoted to Corporal to fill that slot. Funny how the Army had "too many Sergeants", while having a shortage of Sergeants.🙄 I didn't understand it then, and I don't understand it now. ✌️❤️
In the Marine Corps in the 80s when I got promoted to CPL I could go to the NCO/officer line in the chow hall and to the NCO club on base …. Different times… they were better
They wanna give you the responsibility of an NCO but not the privileges or pay. That is what it boils down to. An E-5 is up for CQ and he wants the day off, so he delegates it to the Junior NCO being a Corporal. See how that works? Been there, done that on both sides in the Army.
A corporal is an E-4 or equivalent to a 3rd Class Petty officer in the Navy. Now, I don’t know about the Army’s hierarchy, but in the Navy that is just about the perfect rank, as far as high enough not to have to do shit jobs, yet low enough to not have a bunch of responsibilities.
I was a corporal I liked the rank. How I became cpl was my first Sgt was walking around with pin on ranks in his hand. He stopped looked at for a second and handed my a set of cpl pins and said " go see the company clerk" and that's how I became a cpl.
My great grandpa was corporal rank in WW2, he fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a private but because of some acts if bravery or something (I can't remember exactly) and was then promoted Edit: now that I think about it, some of his other squadmates might've gotten killed and so he was promoted by default
In the UK we have 3 types of food halls/ mess’s and Cpl would be in the junior ranks mess along with junior soldiers. Sgt and above are in the SNCOs mess, officers in the officers mess.
In my first unit the SgtMaj had a policy where you only got Cpl. if you passed the board. His logic was that if you were ready to be a Cpl then you were ready to be a Sgt.
Its not like at all in the Canadian forces. Imo the Cpl is the best rank, and the mcpl (master corporal) is the worst. And yes a navy mcpl in the Canadian navy is called a master seaman.
i hated that rank. got it in the 90's and was given all the crappy tasks. uggh. but on the good end, i had a good unit where the Specialists were all good. they looked out for me and I looked out for them. 2 hour lunches. Hooah.
I was one of those. And you're absolutely right! You don't know who you're friends are anymore. I got "Promoted " cuz I got sent to NBC School and we did not have an NBC NCO Running the room.... So, they made me corporal for like a hot minute. Got an E5 back in the room within 2 months, then I'm back to the E4 Mafia....
I loved being a Cpl, after all the other e4, e5, and even some e6 getting busted for smoking pot (allergic to thc), was promoted to Cpl so I could be a tc of a M-3 Bradley. It made going to e5 a lot easier.
The worst rank in the USA; Captain in a command position. They get their asses ripped off on a daily basis by an O-5. You just don't see it as a junior enlisted Soldier.
How about being a captain in USAREC? Even got a sucking chest wound from a BG because of the recruiting mission. Nowadays, I'm sure a lot of CPTs are crying in their beer because of the recruiting mission.
I know this youtuber who was an E-4, maybe he got higher, idk ranks. But he denied becoming a corporal by denying going into the course they want him to because he fixed guns.
I see a CPL as OJT to the Sergeant rank; I wiahed I had that opportunity to be a CPL. I was a Specialist 5 with no leadership background, & was laterally promoted to Sergeant when the Army abolished all Specialist 5 & above; it was a shock to me coming from a technical rank to a leadership rank. PLDC does nothing without OJT.
Corporals should sit with the NCOs. You're a NCO and should start learning to behave like one. The junior enlisted are no longer your friends, they're you're subordinates. E-5 and above, you need to treat corporals with the same respect you would any other NCO.
The only benefit I had I when I was a Corporal for 2 years is I didn't get reemed has hard as SGT's did when we fucked up because most just assumed " he's learning how to be an NCO"
In the SADF there more corporals than sargeants, corporals had their own mess. They did most of the training of our recruits. I was a lance-corporal and had a bloody nightmare dealing with the corp and sargeants. In my training squadron I don't even know if we had a lieutenant or a sargeant... never saw them if they existed, we were yelled at by everyone but those two.
@@skipdreadman8765 for all it's attempts to avoid anything English, the British military system continued in some ways in the SADF. The Afrikaaner knew it worked best here.
It does kind of suck! I got promoted to Corporal when we were deployed and my staff sergeant missed movement! We ran a huge communication Network and so I was in charge of all day shift operations and he was to report to me the entire deployment, oh that wasn't awkward or anything!
I was a Security Policeman in the USAF & stayed at E-4 Sgt because I didn't think I was Old enough for E-5 Staff Sergeant at first, but realized (especially when I got to the missile field) that I didn't want E-5, because the "FUN" would be over, and I'd have to go work in an office.
I was a Corporal out of RangerSchool in Nam all the senior Officer and NCOs were down Itook over command because I had command authority as a command rank! Later I wD commended on my leadership skills my father was a Master Gunnery in the USMC and N Uncle Corporal Abn Ranger! I say wherever I wanted
I was one of the LAST USAF E-4 Sergeants. I put it on in January of 1991 (the last E-4 Sgts were promoted in May 91) and got out in September of 1997. As a young (22 years old) USAF Security Police Sergeant, I lead multiple 2 man teams, 4 man Fire Teams. I was also qualified as an Area Supervisor for a Nuclear Weapons Storage Area with responsibility for the nuclear weapons, 17 Turkish airmen, and 4 other Americans.
That unit patch of the bear and star bring back memories. I loaded two conex containers at the NTC and took them to Texas. They had the same picture as that patch.
In stead of making Squad Leaders rank Sergeants (later Staff Sergeant) in stead of Corporals (as you did in WW1) for the increased command and combat experience, why not have just increased promotion requirements to Corporal and keep Lance Corporal (1 shevron) and keep PFC but maybe as a horizontal bar or something?
4 years Army J.R.O.T.C. Graduated as a Cadet First Lieutenant, 1 year Army R.O.T.C. at end up my 2nd semester I achieved the the rank of Corporal, 2 weeks later fell off a obstacle at a summer semester camp and landed on my neck from 6 feet off the ground, I was six weeks away from signing my LOI, we are soon approaching 20 years of them letting me fall into the cracks and not getting me help. the University abolished its charter and reformed under a new one with another University and I wasn't the only one who got hosed by it. I'm tired of being in pain, and being angry about this, but the pain never goes away so the anger is always in the forefront of my mind.
Yep that lateral promotion sucks, all the responsibilities, without the support or pay. But even when I was retiring many were treated as PV-5 and PV-6.
My grandfather was an RAAF ADG in WW2. Yes I know it's airforce but it's still a combat role. They wanted to promote him to Sargent but he didn't want it
Bruh Our platoon cpl was the most goofy yet cool guy ever! Like seriously he picked me up once, spun me around and I puked a bit. He just laughed and said I was cool
As a Marine, a soldier friend of mine explained that Specialists are overpaid privates and Corporals are underpaid NCOs
damn
@@Pooperz100 specialist is a time in service rank corporal is earned
You the top dog of what s called a Fire Team when you are a Corporal right. Like a three - Four men Recon team plus you? Heard that was did a lot in the Gulf War up until Bosina/ Kosovo buy the Us military
lol I remember going to jump school as a young corporal in the Corps. No drinking policy but I remember buying my whole squad bay a few handles of vodka and setting up this privates projector. Good times. Yes jump masters, I am slick and you never caught me, you sure came close though.
As a military brat I'd rather be a specialist 🤣 I haven't had a lot of good run ins with a corporal and I was a kid🤣🤣🤣
I was a Corporal and I hated it. I also realized people’s true colors when I got the rank, too. NCOs loved giving me the shit details and shitty soldiers to be in charge of, and some of (whom I thought were) my friends quickly had issues with authority. Fortunately for me, I made Sergeant and PCSd to a better unit.
@@marcusmarcus9158 yes, I did
Bro how does all that shit work man y’all make this shot sound interesting af love the men and woman who serve not so much the leaders in charge god bless
Or you were a dog shit leader
That was my last rank. You get all the responsibility of a Sargent with no respect. Like the Rodney Dangerfield of your platoon.
I used to be a corporal, then my alarm went off. What a nightmare 😟🥹
The worst rank in the army is whatever rank you are.
Skipped corporal went to sergeant then after sergeant went to second lieutenant!!!
How did you able to do this?
@@its_ndiritu049corporal isn’t required, and he commissioned to an officer from an E5
@@its_ndiritu049OCS.. open to enlisted and civilians with a 4 year college degree
Corporal and Specialist are the same pay grade but a corporal absolutely outranks a specialist
As an NCO I treated corporals like fellow NCO's. When I was lower enlisted, I laughed at them. They got bullshit pay for more responsibility.
So, they're "bi-situational" 🤣
There were two kinds of Corporals in the 1980s.
One was a Department of the Army Corporal.
The orders were issued by the DA for promotion. The rank would stay with the soldier during a duty change.
The other was a temporary promotion of an E4 who was in a Team Leader slot for more than 60 days.
The Battalion commander had promotion authority
The moment the soldier was moved to a non leadership duty position, they reverted to a Specialist.
Either way glad a I went straight from E4 Specialist to E5.
Corporals because they technically "leaders" cant hang out with their buddies or the can get fraternization charges.
And Sergeants dont want them around.
I agree worst rank to be in the Army.
Not to mention all of the responsibilities of an NCO without the training or support.
I don't know why people cry about more responsibility. I was filling an E-5 supervisor role as a Corporal in the Marines and it taught me a lot. Ran a shop of ~20 Marines or so and didn't get extra pay for it. Had to do quality assurance as well and inspect all of the maintenance being done throughout the day. Time flies when you're busy. People like to spend their time skating and don't grow or develop any leadership skills because they spent years avoiding it.
As an infantrymen
It was an honor to wear those stripes
LOL as 11B1P in the 82nd Replacement Detachment, saw a Corporal who transferring into the 82nd Airborne that there were no Corporals in Division. Never saw a Corporal mugging around in the 82nd Airborne, but I saw plenty of Specialist who served as Team Leaders until they got to BLC back in the late 1980's.
I'd always get a kick out of the semi-sarcastic respect I'd give to soldiers I knew who made CPL. I'd lock it up tighter talking to them then my 1stSGT and only ever address them as "corporal".
The biggest difference between cpl and sgt is promotion points. With enough promotion points you can go from spc to sgt (or in most cases to cpl as a placeholder until you get promoted to sgt).
But for the ones who don't have the promotion points they have to frantically scramble to get the promotion points to hit e5
My units chaplain is a major and I was a lcpl, he would always sit and eat with us during mess and pray for us, I’m not religious but best experience ever
Don't you mean lieutenant commander?
@@bangochupchup Australia is slightly different, he had 1 crown which makes him a major, joked with him back in the Korean War he probably fought against my chinese grandpa whom was a captain and he was a private, by the time I got my australia discharge papers I was senior nco, world is getting really small
Off topic but are you a Linux user?
So he did his job?
Corporal. The most hated Specialist in the army.
Lmao "am I an officer or am I still cool"
NCOs , the backbone of every service
I would say its one of the cooler ranks. Who said you only had to choose your buddies or the officers. Get in good with both and you increase your chances of opportunities and relationships. Connections are very important. (Edit- last sentence added)
yeah, that's not really how it works. You really do have to pick the homies or the big boys. That's just the nature of the job.
There's this thing called a prohibition on fraternizing with subordinates. You can't just be cool with everyone. That's not how the military works.
Our corporal was the party officer. Made sure no one got too wasted for PT the next day.
Now Corporal is automatic after BLC.
Take that specialist rank out and it’ll solve the whole equation……sincerely the United States Marine Corps
Add a lance specialist rank. Lol
As of 2021 In the Army you get Corporal after completing BLC. BLC is a requirement for E5. So an easy way to tell the difference between a Specialist and Corporal, one is promotable the other is not. The Corporal is also officially a junior NCO, the Specialist isn't.
Staff Sergeant is more chaotic bc you either stuck at that rank and never earn a promotion ever again
I heard one time that a sergeant major is someone you don't ever mess with
And it that is below a master sergeant rank then I'm confused
NOBODY holds rank over Specialist
100% agreed, been a Corporal for 3 yrs now and i have the responsibilities of a Sgt lol
When I was on active duty the promotion points were maxed out, so I was stuck in a long line of people who were waiting for promotion to E5. Our company needed NCOs to fill Team Leader slots, so I got promoted to Corporal to fill that slot. Funny how the Army had "too many Sergeants", while having a shortage of Sergeants.🙄
I didn't understand it then, and I don't understand it now.
✌️❤️
I filled the slot of Cheif Preventive Medical NCO at E-3. A few years later they finally found an E-8 from one of the teams.
I once heard this quote
" if it wouldn't be a waste of such damned fine enlisted men, I recommend you for O.CS
It's not boosted it's a lateral promotion
On the job training for E5
In the Marine Corps in the 80s when I got promoted to CPL I could go to the NCO/officer line in the chow hall and to the NCO club on base …. Different times… they were better
There is no ambiguity about Corporal in the Marines, that is the only E-4 rank and is definitely an NCO
Corporal was the best rank I ever had. Not low enough to do crap work. Not high enough to be in charge. (MSG Ret, US Army. 18ZW8)
They wanna give you the responsibility of an NCO but not the privileges or pay. That is what it boils down to. An E-5 is up for CQ and he wants the day off, so he delegates it to the Junior NCO being a Corporal. See how that works? Been there, done that on both sides in the Army.
Phenomenal cropping on that image! You must be a marine!
I find the rank of corporal pretty interesting, in the AF we don't have an E-4 NCO rank.
Not since May of 1991. I was one of the LAST USAF E-4 Sergeants. I put it on in January of 1991 and separated in September of 1997
Lucky bastard.
A corporal is an E-4 or equivalent to a 3rd Class Petty officer in the Navy. Now, I don’t know about the Army’s hierarchy, but in the Navy that is just about the perfect rank, as far as high enough not to have to do shit jobs, yet low enough to not have a bunch of responsibilities.
There's nothing hybrid about it. That corporal is literally an NCO. If he doesn't know that, his NCO's failed him.
Never got to meet my grandfather but he was a corporal. New found respect for that man.
I was a corporal I liked the rank. How I became cpl was my first Sgt was walking around with pin on ranks in his hand. He stopped looked at for a second and handed my a set of cpl pins and said " go see the company clerk" and that's how I became a cpl.
My great grandpa was corporal rank in WW2, he fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a private but because of some acts if bravery or something (I can't remember exactly) and was then promoted
Edit: now that I think about it, some of his other squadmates might've gotten killed and so he was promoted by default
In the UK we have 3 types of food halls/ mess’s and Cpl would be in the junior ranks mess along with junior soldiers. Sgt and above are in the SNCOs mess, officers in the officers mess.
It’s like being in limbo . It really is a hybrid rank . You’re an nco but you don’t get an ncoer . You’re just getting low balled on your pay .
In my first unit the SgtMaj had a policy where you only got Cpl. if you passed the board. His logic was that if you were ready to be a Cpl then you were ready to be a Sgt.
Corporals are not a hybrid rank, it anything that's a specialist.
A Corporal is a NCO, weather people like to admit it or not.
Marine Corps is different. If ur a corporal and u find yourself among marines, you'll be treated pretty much the same as a sergeant
Its not like at all in the Canadian forces.
Imo the Cpl is the best rank, and the mcpl (master corporal) is the worst.
And yes a navy mcpl in the Canadian navy is called a master seaman.
i hated that rank. got it in the 90's and was given all the crappy tasks. uggh. but on the good end, i had a good unit where the Specialists were all good. they looked out for me and I looked out for them. 2 hour lunches. Hooah.
I was one of those. And you're absolutely right! You don't know who you're friends are anymore. I got "Promoted " cuz I got sent to NBC School and we did not have an NBC NCO Running the room.... So, they made me corporal for like a hot minute. Got an E5 back in the room within 2 months, then I'm back to the E4 Mafia....
I loved being a Cpl, after all the other e4, e5, and even some e6 getting busted for smoking pot (allergic to thc), was promoted to Cpl so I could be a tc of a M-3 Bradley. It made going to e5 a lot easier.
E4 Mafia life
In Russia same thing. We have old proverb, sounds like "Even daughter whore better than son - corporal"
What truly sucks is that even when you go up to corporal you still get paid specialist wage.
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The worst rank in the USA; Captain in a command position. They get their asses ripped off on a daily basis by an O-5. You just don't see it as a junior enlisted Soldier.
How about being a captain in USAREC? Even got a sucking chest wound from a BG because of the recruiting mission. Nowadays, I'm sure a lot of CPTs are crying in their beer because of the recruiting mission.
All of the responsibilities of a NCO, but at the E4 pay.
I know this youtuber who was an E-4, maybe he got higher, idk ranks. But he denied becoming a corporal by denying going into the course they want him to because he fixed guns.
I still have my ID with my Cpl. rank an Nope, went given was definitely earned.
I was a SP5. I guess that doesn't exist in todays Army.
I see a CPL as OJT to the Sergeant rank; I wiahed I had that opportunity to be a CPL. I was a Specialist 5 with no leadership background, & was laterally promoted to Sergeant when the Army abolished all Specialist 5 & above; it was a shock to me coming from a technical rank to a leadership rank. PLDC does nothing without OJT.
Holy crap, you're OLD!
I tried joining the Marines, but was DQed because I'm Straight and I scored too high on the ASVAB!
Corporals should sit with the NCOs. You're a NCO and should start learning to behave like one. The junior enlisted are no longer your friends, they're you're subordinates.
E-5 and above, you need to treat corporals with the same respect you would any other NCO.
It’s not complicated. People simply have a hard time divorcing responsibilities from casual social interaction.
The only benefit I had I when I was a Corporal for 2 years is I didn't get reemed has hard as SGT's did when we fucked up because most just assumed " he's learning how to be an NCO"
The best rank in the Army is retired.
In the SADF there more corporals than sargeants, corporals had their own mess. They did most of the training of our recruits. I was a lance-corporal and had a bloody nightmare dealing with the corp and sargeants. In my training squadron I don't even know if we had a lieutenant or a sargeant... never saw them if they existed, we were yelled at by everyone but those two.
I have a great deal of respect for the SADF.
In the British military tradition, corporal is more like a US staff sergeant. A British staff sergeant is more like an American SFC.
@@skipdreadman8765 for all it's attempts to avoid anything English, the British military system continued in some ways in the SADF.
The Afrikaaner knew it worked best here.
It does kind of suck! I got promoted to Corporal when we were deployed and my staff sergeant missed movement!
We ran a huge communication Network and so I was in charge of all day shift operations and he was to report to me the entire deployment, oh that wasn't awkward or anything!
I was a CPL for barley a month but I liked it.
Honestly a guy that I know literally refused to get promoted to CPL because he didn't want to do extra work without a pay raise.
I was a Security Policeman in the USAF & stayed at E-4 Sgt because I didn't think I was Old enough for E-5 Staff Sergeant at first, but realized (especially when I got to the missile field) that I didn't want E-5, because the "FUN" would be over, and I'd have to go work in an office.
Dunno specialist sounds way cooler than corporal imho
Lol, same thing in Russian or post USSR countries, in Russian that rank is Ефрейтор (yeh-frehy-tor)
Let’s be honest: if you make Cpl, you never had friends in the first place
If u get eagle scout in boy scouts and talk to an army recruiter u get corporal rank
No.
Only promotion where you lose money.
Whattt no way 😭 that sucks
😭
I was a Corporal out of RangerSchool in Nam all the senior Officer and NCOs were down Itook over command because I had command authority as a command rank! Later I wD commended on my leadership skills my father was a Master Gunnery in the USMC and N Uncle Corporal Abn Ranger! I say wherever I wanted
I was one of the LAST USAF E-4 Sergeants. I put it on in January of 1991 (the last E-4 Sgts were promoted in May 91) and got out in September of 1997. As a young (22 years old) USAF Security Police Sergeant, I lead multiple 2 man teams, 4 man Fire Teams. I was also qualified as an Area Supervisor for a Nuclear Weapons Storage Area with responsibility for the nuclear weapons, 17 Turkish airmen, and 4 other Americans.
That unit patch of the bear and star bring back memories. I loaded two conex containers at the NTC and took them to Texas. They had the same picture as that patch.
They are the same paygrade. Sorta like SGM and CSM or MSG and 1SG
I guess in a war corporals are important in the chain of command,if your Sargent gets taken out you can fill the slot and take over his role.?
E4 Mafia will tear a a cpl up
They're not the same rank, the same pay grade yes, but not the same rank
Research the history of the specialist rank
In stead of making Squad Leaders rank Sergeants (later Staff Sergeant) in stead of Corporals (as you did in WW1) for the increased command and combat experience, why not have just increased promotion requirements to Corporal and keep Lance Corporal (1 shevron) and keep PFC but maybe as a horizontal bar or something?
I am really proud to have been a Corporal of Marines.
4 years Army J.R.O.T.C. Graduated as a Cadet First Lieutenant, 1 year Army R.O.T.C. at end up my 2nd semester I achieved the the rank of Corporal, 2 weeks later fell off a obstacle at a summer semester camp and landed on my neck from 6 feet off the ground, I was six weeks away from signing my LOI, we are soon approaching 20 years of them letting me fall into the cracks and not getting me help. the University abolished its charter and reformed under a new one with another University and I wasn't the only one who got hosed by it. I'm tired of being in pain, and being angry about this, but the pain never goes away so the anger is always in the forefront of my mind.
No. A private 1 is the worst rank, most bullshit and least pay.
I was a corporal in the army from 2009 to 2010.
The junior NCO
Corporal is the best rank. Too good for the shit jobs, not good enough to have to do the difficult.
I was a Corporal in the Field Artillery. I loved it.
As an ex corporal I can compare it to a technical lead in business today you have the responsibility but not the pay
All of the responsibility, none of the respect
As a Marine, had no issue regarding being neither fish or fowel
Yep that lateral promotion sucks, all the responsibilities, without the support or pay. But even when I was retiring many were treated as PV-5 and PV-6.
Never had a lateral promotion I was in the infantry and automatically got Cpl rank once I made E-4
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I pray respect is different in your realm. In the engineer world or other soft MOS’s you are not supported.
Just make the specialists corporals.
My grandfather was an RAAF ADG in WW2. Yes I know it's airforce but it's still a combat role. They wanted to promote him to Sargent but he didn't want it
Work of a SGT for the pay of a SPC
I need to see whole spread sheet
So it’s just the most confusing army rank
You have a lookalike, a famous leader hehehe
Mr.Z?
I just had this conversation with a newly minted WO.
In Denmark pretty much the only Corporals are the Military Police as have to be able to give orders.
Do a video of private first class badge
Bruh
Our platoon cpl was the most goofy yet cool guy ever! Like seriously he picked me up once, spun me around and I puked a bit. He just laughed and said I was cool
New rules in the Army. If you are an E4 and complete BLC, you are made a Corporal.