{"id":33407,"date":"2012-12-28T11:17:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T15:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33407"},"modified":"2012-12-28T11:17:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T15:17:31","slug":"wanna-cut-defense-cut-the-sma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33407","title":{"rendered":"Wanna cut Defense? Cut the SMA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The El Paso Times<\/a> has an article on the Sergeants Major Academy at Fort Bliss which reminds me of how much I dislike sergeant majors. If ever there was a waste of money, it’s that God-awful “school” for police call inspectors. I’ve seen perfectly good first sergeants (or should call them firsts sergeant?) attend and come back utter morons.<\/p>\n

Most of the work is classroom-based with seminars, lectures and small-group studies. Students also go on a field trip to Columbus, N.M., and study Pancho Villa’s infamous raid into the United States.<\/p>\n

To graduate, Malloy said, soldiers have to get at least an 80 percent in the leadership part of the course and 70 percent in the other four areas to graduate.<\/p>\n

“We’re recognized as the pinnacle of noncommissioned officer education throughout the world,” Malloy said. “That’s why we get a lot of international students.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why would a sergeant major go on a staff ride? Did Pancho Villa leave cigarette butts on his trail? Yeah, it’s my considered opinion that sergeant major is the most useless rank and position in the Army. I know they think they’re the senior enlisted adviser to their commander, but what do they really do? <\/p>\n

The turd with whom I went to Desert Storm was nothing but the headquarters company E-4 Mafia’s enforcer. He’d be out of breath walking out to battalion PT and of course we’d all have to run at his pace in formation and I could crawl faster. He had his favorites and protected them from any amount of discipline and work. He busted his ass to make sure that “NCO Time” was a complete waste of training schedule. And why make the E7s and E8s at battalion headquarters do anything commensurate with their rank when you can jerk a line platoon sergeant away from his troops to do it?<\/p>\n

Yeah, if the Army wants to cut personnel, cut out Master Sergeant and staff Sergeant Major ranks, tell those staff pukes they have to take over a line unit and watch them beat feet towards retirement. Manpower problem solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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