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No way, you're going to end up flying a desk like the rest of us before long!
I doubt it's possible given the nature of the way the forum works but let's see what the A2A guys say.
I doubt it's possible given the nature of the way the forum works but let's see what the A2A guys say.
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- Nick - A2A
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Technically speaking, it's possible to assign 'custom' ranks einherz, but things would get a bit messy if we start doing this too often. Besides, there are all sorts of interesting characters in the NCOs mess.
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That'll be 'Sergeants' mess. NCO covers corporals who aren't privy to the Sergeants Mess. Of course, that the British way. American messes may be different.
Come to think of it, we don't have corporals on the forum do we?
EDIT: Just noticed I'm a Master Sergeant. Must be American.
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Re: rank
'Fraid so Ron. There'll be 'Lootenants' and all sorts knocking around.
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no way to no way lol, i was going to end up 20years ago, so now i can only going to end down, but no, no way again lol
oookkk must be i will change my rank in the signature, something like that - my rank is airman. corrected to believe. marshall of the universe coalition air force einherz
good idea, may be i'll take lunatynant night-flierNick - A2A wrote: ↑16 Jun 2019, 08:55'Fraid so Ron. There'll be 'Lootenants' and all sorts knocking around.
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so i just must to add to "airman" "lunatynant night-flier" so nobody will disturb me
good for you, my father know, what can expect nothing of me hahaha
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Re: rank
When the United States Air Force became a separate service from the Army in 1947 it began life with new designations for the junior enlisted ranks -- Airman Basic, Airman Third Class, Airman Second Class, Airman First Class, and then the NCO grades beginning with Sergeant (three stripes, Grade E-4). With time and evolving political sensitivities, the junior enlisted ranks were eventually renamed so nobody would be called "third class": Senior Airman replaced "Airman First Class"; Airman Second Class was renamed to Airman First Class; Airman Third Class became simply "Airman." In all that I don't know what rank comes closest to the Corporal rank; Senior Airman is the most similar in function because when the USAF still had the three-striped buck sergeant, Senior Airman was the same pay grade (E-4) and had the same number of stripes but wasn't considered an NCO. The Sergeant rank was eliminated in the 1990s and now Senior Airmen promote to Staff Sergeant (E-5).Ron Attwood wrote: ↑16 Jun 2019, 08:36That'll be 'Sergeants' mess. NCO covers corporals who aren't privy to the Sergeants Mess. Of course, that the British way. American messes may be different.
Come to think of it, we don't have corporals on the forum do we?
When I entered the Air Force in 1993 the NCO Club had become an all-purpose enlisted club, and there wasn't a mess to speak of. The Officer Club was in a separate building and had different gathering areas for senior officers and junior officers. The NCO Club at my base was eliminated by the end of the 1990s, basically as the club system as a whole began dying from lack of interest. The Air Force went to the combined club system where basically dues were tiered by rank but otherwise activities were open to everyone. The O-Club became a base community center; it experimented with buffet lunches open to the public with moderate success; and had its last gasp as a Youth Activities Center before it was finally demolished. Now everything is under one roof in a modern community center that you aren't allowed to call a 'club', and all ranks socialize very informally compared to what I remember as a young Airman 1st Class in the early 1990s.
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