The NCO and the Officer...

[Firefly]

Originally Posted by Cauldron Borne

I want to be in the military, so I guess I need to learn what a REMF means...

Rear Echelon Mother Fucker. In the rear with the gear. Not on the front lines getting shot at.

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Keep in mind that as a cadet, you learn how the military is supposed to be.

Later on you'll learn how it really is.

Especially when some groggy, tired, pissed-off Sergeant who's been micromanaged and had rank pulled on him for two months finally has enough of your pretentious bullshit and sticks his finger in your face and says, "Listen, 'sir'. Get your head out of your ass, or have it placed there by force over and over."

We had some dipshit lieutenant show up as a platoon leader, and he had the balls to claim that his four years of ROTC meant he had four years of field time. It was especially amusing when he said his summer camps were great eye-openers as to how the military should work and he started "laying down the law". The thing that gets me is, his predecessor (a great man) told him specifically, "These guys are pro. Stay out of their way. Make sure they get chow, make sure they have bullets, go to bat for them no matter what. But let them do their job the way they've been doing it, because it works." The n00b said he understood...

About two months later, when the company commander commended him on his troops doing a good job (notice there was no mention of him doing one), we had to break it to him that it was because we'd heard what he said, promptly ignored it when he was out of earshot, and went about our merry way.