Fiddle's Green

[Abbott Shaull]

Originally Posted by Graebarde

He actually retired as a Master Sergeant, being promoted just before he retired, and not enough time to get in trouble again, and they dried him out..

I often think of Sergeant Johnson. I was a young buck at the time with two tours under my belt, and he was an inspiration to me as an infantryman.

Grae

You back then a good NCO could be busted several time with hopes to raise back up through the ranks. In today Army if you get busted from NCO rank you will probably at best make Specialist 4 and barred from re-enlistment.

I know of one E-5 who was in my Company in 1988 who was promoted back to E-5 for the third time. This was toward the end, a couple months later another E-5 got busted for something trivial compared what the previous E-5 was busted for and he was only busted to E-4, but was barred from re-enlisting again. Not that he cared, he came from well off family, but it still amazed me that in short time the Army and Officers had started to change policy.