On 29Jul2020 0358, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
> Didn't know you kept the 'Lance' Corporal (also Lance Sergeant or not?).
No Lance Sergeants.
>
> Our Master Corporals are above Corporals where I believe the Lance
> Corporal is below.
It is.
>
> Our CWO2s get to wear officer-ish gear (not quite identical) but I
> don't ever recall anyone saying they got 'Sir'd' but honestly I don't
> think I've seen one up close (privates hide form such encounters...
> lol) and so it may be they are.
"Sir", but you don't salute them. Not if you value your hide, anyway.
> Our MasterCorporals were leading our sections with a Corporal helping
> out (section 2ic). The Platoon Lt. and the Platoon Sgt. handled the
> platoon (the Sgt was 2ic and usually stayed with the weap det (heavy
> weapons section)).
That's much the same as us, but we had Corporals as section commanders
and Lance Corporals as section 2IC. In theory, anyway. It wasn't
uncommon for a senior LCpl to be a section commander.

> And then there was the 'national rules of engagement' (or
> non-engagement mostly). Germans, French and Nederlanders were fairly
> casualty averse (due to the big political blowback back home) so they
> got the easier sectors but did not leave the firebases much when
> contact was made with the foes and they didn't pursue. The Canucks,
> US, and Brits would pursue. This got the stay-at-homes the
> tongue-in-cheek name "FOBbits" (Forward Operating Base hobbits
> basically - stay home and comfy and get breakfast, second breakfast,
> elevensies, etc...).
Rules of engagement are famously written by politicians 'back home' and
Brass who never leave their air conditioned rear-area bases, and for
their lack of contact with the reality on the ground.

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>