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To whit, my 🧵 on why "Chief Master Sergeant" makes no sense in Space Force.
Let's recognize the fact the modifiers "Senior" and "Chief" before "Master" came about...
To whit, my 🧵 on why "Chief Master Sergeant" makes no sense in Space Force.
Let's recognize the fact the modifiers "Senior" and "Chief" before "Master" came about...
https://twitter.com/SpaceBaseDelta1/status/1512864769354571779
...as a relic of USAF's #hasty effort to implement two new enlisted "supergrades" when Congress approved them in May 1958.
No joke: USAF had MSgts who reported to MSgts who reported to MSgts!
In haste, they decreed "a MSgt reports to a SMSgt who reports to a CMSgt." But now...
No joke: USAF had MSgts who reported to MSgts who reported to MSgts!
In haste, they decreed "a MSgt reports to a SMSgt who reports to a CMSgt." But now...
...we've got real problems in the U.S. with the words "master" and "chief."
USSF had a PERFECT opportunity to abandon these words. One obvious choice would be to change "Chief" to "Module," leading to a fantastic "Command Module Sergeant" title.
Another obvious choice...
USSF had a PERFECT opportunity to abandon these words. One obvious choice would be to change "Chief" to "Module," leading to a fantastic "Command Module Sergeant" title.
Another obvious choice...
...would change "Master" to "Missile," leading to a fantastic "Missile Sergeant" title.
What about "Senior," then? The obvious S word is "Silo Sergeant" (ha! you were thinking "satellite"!)
"Technical" is okay, but I prefer "Control Sergeant" as in ground control station...
What about "Senior," then? The obvious S word is "Silo Sergeant" (ha! you were thinking "satellite"!)
"Technical" is okay, but I prefer "Control Sergeant" as in ground control station...
...and you just get rid of "Staff" entirely. An E-5 is a Sergeant--
--which combines with the unofficial Air Force "buck sergeant" to create an unofficial "Buck (Rogers) Sergeant" if only so a youthful Guardian can tell his supervisor "Roger, Roger!"
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--which combines with the unofficial Air Force "buck sergeant" to create an unofficial "Buck (Rogers) Sergeant" if only so a youthful Guardian can tell his supervisor "Roger, Roger!"
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