Or do you have a QM SGT and and ORD SGT with stuff on their sleeves and they're trying to figure out where they'd line up in ranks?
I had a lightbulb moment many years ago when maneuvering badly over ground with a company. The battalion commander yelled "Sergeants and corporals, do your jobs. That's why you have stripes on your sleeve." And I realized that as a corporal, I was standing there on the left of the front line to influence and direct the behavior of a small group of soldiers directly around me. Farther away from me, there were other corporals who should be doing the same thing. I rose to the occasion.
I would suggest that rather than putting sgts stripes on a guy for company administration purposes, that you make QM and ORD the additional duties of your corporals or 2nd sgt. They already have a place to stand and a reason to be in the company. Unless you're a battalion staff, the other specialists don't.
Rob Weaver
Pine River Boys, Co I, 7th Wisconsin
"We're... Christians, what read the Bible and foller what it says about lovin' your enemies and carin' for them what despitefully use you -- that is, after you've downed 'em good and hard."
-Si Klegg and His Pard Shorty
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