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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s all so strange to me that that the highest ranking person on board was not the most experienced, nor the doing the evaluating. The Army is effed up. [/quote]

The military rank structure probably seems odd to someone who is not familiar with it.  [/quote]

I thought most educated people know what an rotc or a service academy grad comes in at. 
Oh well. [/quote]

Most people don’t understand what a warrant officer is.[/quote]

It’s weird that she outranks him and he must evaluate her, no?[/quote]

It is shocking how many Americans know so little about the military. There was a time when most adults had either served in the military themselves or had close family or friends who had served. But today, most adults haven’t served and might not even know anyone who has served.

And, yes, the rank of warrant officer can be confusing, but once someone explained it to me when I was in my twenties, I understood it. I wasn’t even in the military myself, but had a good friend who was serving at the time.

This thread really illustrates how little adults in our society understand about the basics of how the military services operate. 
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How on earth would non military understand this? It’s convoluted.[/quote]

It is, somewhat. But there was a time when people had been in the military, or their parent or sibling or spouse or even good friend had been, so there was a level of knowledge about how the military worked. So even non-military had some knowledge of how the military operated, and they at least knew the names of the different rates/ranks. That no longer exists, so we get a lot of adults making comments about people and situations where they don’t have even a basic grasp of the context- but that doesn’t stop them from opining. 
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This happens with everything.  You think Trump and his supporters knows what the people do who they are firing?

I don't need to know about the military to understand that helicopters shouldn't be around national [b]unless they are simulating something specifically relative to maneuvering around an airport or around DC in an emergency.[/b]  [/quote]

In which case, they failed miserably.[/quote]

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