" A CPL is a Non-commissioned officer, an easy mistake for a dumb reporter."
Is an E-4 an NCO, now? When I was in (the '71-'73 dark ages), I was an E4, but they didn't consider us NCOs. When I visited an Air Force base, I was shocked to find I could go to the NCO club and everybody addressed me as "Sargeant."
61 posted on 12/18/2003 7:19:27 AM PST by cookcounty
(Howard Dean, mayor of a picturesque small town in New England.)