During my bootcamp time a instructor ones told us that the most vital part of an army or any unit where the cooks.
I think he was & is pretty right.
In your opinion, who has the most vital post in a army or unit of the military (I know that all are vital & complement them selfe, but just choose the MOST important )
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1) The Cooks; they fed us
2) The Ship's Storekeepers; they paid us
3) The Ship's Engineers; hotel services underway!
Note: Picture of USCGC BOUTWELL (WHEC 719) by me while on Duty, as Junior Officer of the Deck, at sunset. The cutter just pulled into San Diego and I had duty on the first day of a three day visit. I was walking around the main deck and thought this was a good shot of the the cutter's main battery (76mm Gun) and Fire Control System (Mk 92 FCS).
(sorry about the size, I'll format smaller pics in the future). -LTGunner-
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1) The Cooks; they fed us
2) The Ship's Storekeepers; they paid us
3) The Ship's Engineers; hotel services underway!
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1) Cooks? CM's themselves are fine, and while the role they play is vital, I wouldn't put them as the most important for the well being of a command(here guys, have crab legs, and have fun working on Saturday!)
2) I thought the Navy and Coast Guard shared many commonalties, besides just rank and recognition for the most part, and that includes rates, which it's the DK's(dispersing clerks) that pay you, not SK's, while they complain to the engineers and deck about how hard their job is......
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You're correct, the USCG follows the same Naval structure; but call some of their rates by different names; e.g. USCG Cooks are Food Services Specialist - FS. On all the cutters I served aboard, the cooks always set the mood of the crew. Bad meal meant bad moods... After a long boarding, a good galley crew would wait and have a hot meal waiting, a less than capable set of cooks would have a jar of PB & loaf of bread on the mess deck.
When I enlisted in 1980, we were paid cash at the Storekeepers Office. The SK's maintained a paper pay record (part of our service record at that time). If the SK didn't think your pay record was in order, he'd have to "review" it or have it audited, hence you wouldn't get paid until he thought it was in good order. SKs also ordered & maintained supplies, they controlled a lot of "who gets what & when on a cutter... Direct deposit is a good thing now.
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Culinary specialist / food specialist, more or less the same. Has the USCG adopted the DK rate, or do they still use the SK to deal with financial records and allowance.
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They still have the SK rate and the Yeoman now take care of pay matters. SKs for the most part are the USCG's procurement specialist (contracts and such).
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In my company it was definitely the "spiess" = kissem (or topkick for Americans).
The guy bascially kept the company together. He knew everyone and everyone respected him even more than the company commander.
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Most vital job in the military is anything and everythign that has to do with command. When lives of many fellow soldiers are at stake, the decisions you make just have to be right!
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You dont need a cook, give a soldier a shovel, he'll find wood, find eggs and make egg's for himself on the shovel over a fire.
You need pilots to get Soldiers there fast, pilots as in Helo pilots and transport pilots, also drivers, they drive soldiers there, take their ammo, food and other needs there, and bring them back safe and sound
Vehicles, you can have millions of soldiers, but you need to transport them, you cant expect them to walk the whole time.
But there are diff situations, like Navy Vessels. You need people to get rid of the trash, get someone to clean up your mess and do your laundry.
So there are very different things, like the companies that make the uniform's, good luck if you're short on uniform's, ofc im not saying that Cook's are useless, they're vital, but without them a soldier can grow and cope with the matter at hand :P
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I hated going on sentry duty. We had separate guys handling the guard posts, but other companies like mine had to do our part due to manpower shortages. When we got more, it meant less graveyard shifts and more sleep for me. So those poor suckers get my vote.
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