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He says he was a first sergeant, but if you have ever been an actual first sergeant/E-8 your retirement ID says first sergeant, and not Master Sergeant/E-8.

There has always been a huge distinction between a Master Sergeant and a First Sergeant. The US Army recognizes more highly the rank (not grade) of 1SG or First Sergeant over a Master Sergeant.

A first sergeant is higher in authority within the same company than a master sergeant. First sergeant is a leadership position and even a CSM/E-9 or SGM/E-9 assigned to the same company belongs to the 1SG for all training, logistics, and administration; however the E-9 can be the higher leader for purposes of the Battalion a CSM would be over the company 1SGs. Even a Battalion commander falls under a 1SG/First Sergeant for traning, logistics and administration at the company level to which they are assigned.

The reason some many claim 1SG is because it is literally the best, hardest job in the Army. You are the father figure and some are tryants, but when I go thru the Gates at Fort Liberty, NC (Bragg), the young soldiers always greet me as 1SG and everyone who rights with me say the young troops treat a 1SG differently at the gate from themselves. A colonel buddy of mine used to get mad that he got salutes but me a warm greeting.

Waltz is a thief and liar and he wants the recognition but he never held the actual position.

He was just some guy in a non-company level unit and they like to claim false valor within some detachments calling their Master Sergeants (position of Army assignment) and call themselves within the Unit a first sergeant. It is the kind of Bull Shit you get with Chairborne Rangers, 5-jump chumps, and college junior year rangers who never serve in a unit but wear the badge of qualification thru out their careers. In the airborne community, true leaders become the guys with a star or star and wreath over their parachutist wings - a jumpmaster.

Even a CSM or SGM will tell you they recognize the 1SG differently from a master sergeant. The Command Sergeant Major is in charge of a Battalion sized unit. The Staff Sergeant Major is a staff rat, similar to the master sergeant, who is not in a battalion or large leadership position - a SGM is more like a platoon sergeant at best or team leader less than a squad leader at worst for size of supervisory function.

Waltz is claiming false valor as claiming 1SG. Again if he had ever served as a 1SG it would be he Rank (1SG) not (MSG) besides his grade of Enlisted-8/E-8. He is a MSG/E-8 and was never a first sergeant.

Again, the Army reserves that distincition for those who have done the hardest but more personnaly satisfying position in the Enlisted Ranks.