Saturday, March 22, 2008

What Warrant Officers do when they're not Flying

I apologize for the pre-explanation, but otherwise this picture wouldn't make any sense to non-military types....

In the headquarters of just about every army unit, on the wall, there will be pictures of the chain of command. It starts off with whoever is charge of that unit, usually a Lieutenant Colonel. The next picture will be his boss, a colonel. Then the colonel's boss, a general. Then the general's boss, a general with more stars, and so on until you see a picture of the president.

Then, on the other wall, they'll have pictures of the commanders (usually captains) that work for the lieutenant colonel. Get the idea? So anyway, when we went down to Fort Campbell we moved into an empty hangar, where they had taken down their pictures, but left up the frames on the wall. The pilots thought it would be cute to make sure that the temporary chain of command was properly represented on the wall:

I thought it was pretty funny. Apparently my picture started off with just the red skirt, but they said my stick figure looked topless at that point, so they added the cool square blue shirt. And yes, we left the pictures behind after we were done.

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