[Silly]

Scene on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR9HuRUUTbs#t=41

[OneWingedShark]

Looks like a Sergeant First Class to me — seems to be a bit of a second rocker on the far sleeve.

[Perdogg]

staff sergeant

[gaijin]

Army E-6, Staff Sergeant, Infantry, 101st Airborne

[OneWingedShark]

Yep, the clip clearly shows that he’s an SFC.

[Mastador1]

Staff Sergeant?

[Jack Hydrazine]

Looks like a staff sergeant.

[Larry Lucido]

Lighten up, Francis.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Vice President in charge of looking out the window.

;-)

[gaijin]

He’s right —the motion clip shows he’s not E-6, he’s E-7, Sergeant First Class.

[ScottinVA]

He’s a staff sergeant.. an E-6. It was entirely feasible for a recruiter to hold that rank during that era.

[AFreeBird]

Lighten up Francis.

[Gay State Conservative]

I think I see two rockers (there's definitely one) so he's probably an SFC (E-7)...101st Airborne.

[BenLurkin]

I was told just to call them all sergeants and not worry about it. Simply remember that the fancier their patch, the higher up they are in the chain.

[freedombird]

Sergeant First Class.....looks like he served in a Combat Zone with the 101st Airborne.....with a unit that received both a Presidential Unit Citation and a Meritorious Unit Citation. Didn’t see jump wings....has a Combat Infantrymans Badge (CIB) and an Air Assault badge. I would say he saw action in Viet Nam in the late,late 60’s and early 70’s as the war was wrapping up. That would put him at about 10-14 years service in 1982.....about right for a SFC.

[SargeK]

Not sure about the order of precedence either. It looks like he’s sporting an Army Commendation medal over a Purple Heart.

[acad1228]

Will they send us someplace special?

[fightin kentuckian]

The clip shows two rockers indicating that he is a Sergeant First Class (SFC, E7). It is entirely plausible to have a Soldier of that rank detailed to recruiting duty. My only question about that is the SFC is wearing his Class A jacket. Those jackets aren’t the most comfortable. In reality he’d have his jacket hanging up in a closet close by and he’d be in Class B’s (Sans jacket) around the office. Now days they’d likely be in cammies for office duty and Class A’s when they go to meet contacts.

[Vesparado]

They didn’t ask ME if I was homosexual. I think that’s a personal question from the Sarge, who’s probably a flaming faggot with the hots for Bill Murray!

[Last Dakotan]

Someone with far too much experience, honor, grace and class to be meeting with the two a-holes in front of him.

[Prole]

Everyone who has indicated he is an E-7 (Sergeant First Class) is correct.

Everyone who noticed he has a Vietnam era Combat Infantry Badge, and his unit in Vietnam was the 101st Airborne Division is also correct.

The Purple Heart and Meritorious Unit Commendation references are also correct.

....But the one thing that everyone seems to miss about this image is THE HAIR!!!

I have always, always, always believed that Soldiers should BE ALLOWED to have trimmed hair in the Army. The NCO in the "Stripes" photo has a professional and trim haircut, and doesn't look like Mr. Potato Head or Bert/Ernie.

One of the nuisances with today's Army is Soldiers shave their heads entirely bald, and look like Mr. Clean or some absurd nonsense.

They look ridiculous like this, especially in civilian clothing (and for even better reason, they are easily identifiable in terms of OPSEC):

One of the things I really like about the Cold War era Army is that Soldiers were allowed to maintain short, trimmed haircuts and look good with it while in uniform.