CPT Nervous
Grandmaster
Looks like all my credentials are back in order.
Reminds me of a Marine Lt. Colonel I knew. When he was a Captain, he was going somewhere on a Naval base, and called ahead and said he would be there at such a time, and needed a car to pick him up. They gladly arranged the transportation, and when he arrived in USMC greens, they looked puzzled. They had expected a Navy Captain, an O-6, not a Marine Captain, an O-3. They didn't want to give him the car, that he mislead them. He said that they never asked his branch, and they made assumptions. They ended up driving him.
Another time, the same guy, when he was a newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant. He yelled at a Navy Ensign, the same rank as a 2LT, and asked him, "Don't you know that that Ensigns are required to salute 2nd LTs??"
The Ensign apologized and saluted. Sometimes it's not what you say, but how you say it.
He was a cool dude.
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