[Night Hides Not]

+1, Smaj. Thanks for your service.

I relished the term "Old Man" when I was a Battery Commander, at the ripe old age of 29.

Whenever an insinuation is made that I may be a racist, I take it on head on...I simply don't put up with it. From the time I entered active duty, I served in units that were majority black/Hispanic. We were all green, race had no role in how we did our jobs.

I'll be damned if I'm going to let someone get away with that racist crap.

[wbarmy]

We were all green, race had no role in how we did our jobs.

That statement brings up some crazy memories. I was a platoon sergeant who was also the EO NCO, with a black EO officer. No big problems until one day a black private wanted to talk to the officer. I asked the private what the problem was, and he gave me a sneer and said that I would not understand, it was a black thing. Before I even registered a thought on it, my arm acted all on its own, I had put him against the wall and sneered right back, "well this is a green thing and you will never talk to me like that." I never had another problem with any of our young privates, of any color, after that.

[OldSmaj]

Thank you.