07-03-2009, 03:49 AM
Quote:Why is the bloke alonside of me - a "marching leader" - accorded a higher staus and, I assume, pay? Why make the distinction in pay when the duty and danger is exactly the same?...exactly the same reason a Sergeant recieves less pay than a Lieutenant today - you are his subordinate, second- in -command of the file and only responsible for 8 men, not 16.....not forgetting that 'battle' is only a tiny fraction of the time your duities take up....
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"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
