Chief Master Sergeant

At times we find ourselves in situations we could never envision being in, I know For me this was at no time more of the case than when I deployed to Afghanistan in 2013. To better illustrate, I found myself in a platoon amongst a variety of individuals from varying places in America with an array of backgrounds. I personally was just a year removed from living at home with my parents when I enlisted into the Army to work with communications. Perhaps I was delusional, thinking war would not be a…

teach a double class. We were on resourced for one class. During this time, Chief Grandinetti kept trying to sell me on the idea of becoming a Warrant Officer. He was consistently telling me I had the capacity to serve at a higher level of responsibility than I was currently serving. He took time out of his day to take me to a Warrant Officer recruiting brief. When the slide came up with the qualities of a Warrant Officer, Chief Grandinetti told me I was all of them. I thought to myself those…

from basic inequalities of necessities. Essentially, the workers notice that while the cats, along with the masters, lounge throughout the days, they are working exceedingly long hours with little to no respite. Moreover, the cats are passed morsels of food from the masters. Whereas, the workers live off of rotten scraps of food and struggle to eat enough nutrients to survive. Since the masters employ the journeymen and provide shelter some food, the workers cannot openly rebel against the…

they had made the right choice. The Specialists’ whose lives were unaffected by the dangers of combat but had listened eagerly to their comrades stories of heroism and valor, longing to be the hero of the story. The balding and slightly overweight Sergeant who longed…

Every step he took his back straightened more and more, every word he spoke became clearer and clearer. Wes was becoming more and more of a man. As he began to improve and improve working his way up in the ranks, Wes became a platoon sergeant, a cadet master sergeant and also became the youngest senior noncommissioned officer out of the the entire corps. “Three years ago I’d been one of the insubordinate kids first entering the gates of Valley Forge. In an ironic turn, I was now one of the ones…

Staff Sergeant Coleman, the last time she was stationed here she was married and her name was Walker. She was not in the Company, she worked on staff at the Battalion. My Team Leader was also previously assigned to the unit, but the last time he was a Staff Sergeant as well, but now he was a Captain. I in processed into the unit. My team Leader asked if I wanted to go with them to the field. I had just arrived and had not had a chance to settle down. I figured it…

The number of exercises was absurd as well as the difficulty of them. At sundown the sergeants put our names on a board under squad numbers. We had an hour to group up and find our housing. After we found our squad, I was chosen to be the leader. The sergeant showed up to my squad and gave me a topographic map of the area. Our housing was marked with an X; we had half an hour left to find our housing before lights out.…

to keep us and our loved ones safe. For those of you that do not know who I am, my name is Gestine Geigy and I am sixteen years old. I am a junior at Northeast high school, and currently I do not work anywhere. I am running for sergeant and corporal, even though sergeant is what I actually want, I figured there would not be any spots available for this position. I did not go to state police camp, Washington D.C training, or Youth Police Camp, but did go to Fort Indiantown Gap once. Even…

I have conducted three formal interviews with two Staff Sergeants and a First Lieutenant, who serve within the infantry branch. For this paper, I have chosen to reflect upon the interviews I conducted with First…

Being a soldier with multiple combat tours I have seen in some cases the worst humanity can offer. During my last combat tour my experiences helped myself define the direction I wanted to take, both in the military and eventually when I transition back into the civilian world. I made the decision about month six of my tour that I wanted to stay in the Army, but above all that I should return to my roots as a professional computer nerd. In 2009 I was running my own Information Technology Company…