You the top dog of what s called a Fire Team when you are a Corporal right. Like a three - Four men Recon team plus you? Heard that was did a lot in the Gulf War up until Bosina/ Kosovo buy the Us military
lol I remember going to jump school as a young corporal in the Corps. No drinking policy but I remember buying my whole squad bay a few handles of vodka and setting up this privates projector. Good times. Yes jump masters, I am slick and you never caught me, you sure came close though.
I was a Corporal and I hated it. I also realized people’s true colors when I got the rank, too. NCOs loved giving me the shit details and shitty soldiers to be in charge of, and some of (whom I thought were) my friends quickly had issues with authority. Fortunately for me, I made Sergeant and PCSd to a better unit.
Bro how does all that shit work man y’all make this shot sound interesting af love the men and woman who serve not so much the leaders in charge god bless
Was my favorite rank in the Marines. Got to do a lot of the fun stuff, passed off a lot of the BS to my Lance Criminals and PFC's. All the fun stuff disappeared at Sgt.
@@StudleyDuderight two opponents facing eachother with at least overall same capabilities, examples peer conflicts like WWII or near peer like parts of Vietnam war, Korean war and Ukraine war. Then there's stuff like Georgian war and gulf wars that are against opponents so vastly inferior that it's over so fast. Then there's stuff like Chechen war and Afghanistan war or post Iraq war Iraq that's just insurgency
Was promoted in the US Army as a Corporal after Airborne School. Lots of responsibilities. Led two Soldiers during Hurricane Andrews in Helmsted, FL. Felt really GREAT assisting and protecting civilians in the areas.
That's actually serving our country. Much respect. No respect given to "soldiers" who go off on some government tangent and kill random people overseas they've never met. You really did protect us.
I'd always get a kick out of the semi-sarcastic respect I'd give to soldiers I knew who made CPL. I'd lock it up tighter talking to them then my 1stSGT and only ever address them as "corporal".
There were two kinds of Corporals in the 1980s. One was a Department of the Army Corporal. The orders were issued by the DA for promotion. The rank would stay with the soldier during a duty change. The other was a temporary promotion of an E4 who was in a Team Leader slot for more than 60 days. The Battalion commander had promotion authority The moment the soldier was moved to a non leadership duty position, they reverted to a Specialist. Either way glad a I went straight from E4 Specialist to E5. Corporals because they technically "leaders" cant hang out with their buddies or the can get fraternization charges. And Sergeants dont want them around. I agree worst rank to be in the Army.
LOL as 11B1P in the 82nd Replacement Detachment, saw a Corporal who transferring into the 82nd Airborne that there were no Corporals in Division. Never saw a Corporal mugging around in the 82nd Airborne, but I saw plenty of Specialist who served as Team Leaders until they got to BLC back in the late 1980's.
My units chaplain is a major and I was a lcpl, he would always sit and eat with us during mess and pray for us, I’m not religious but best experience ever
@@bangochupchup Australia is slightly different, he had 1 crown which makes him a major, joked with him back in the Korean War he probably fought against my chinese grandpa whom was a captain and he was a private, by the time I got my australia discharge papers I was senior nco, world is getting really small
I would say its one of the cooler ranks. Who said you only had to choose your buddies or the officers. Get in good with both and you increase your chances of opportunities and relationships. Connections are very important. (Edit- last sentence added)
As of 2021 In the Army you get Corporal after completing BLC. BLC is a requirement for E5. So an easy way to tell the difference between a Specialist and Corporal, one is promotable the other is not. The Corporal is also officially a junior NCO, the Specialist isn't.
The biggest difference between cpl and sgt is promotion points. With enough promotion points you can go from spc to sgt (or in most cases to cpl as a placeholder until you get promoted to sgt). But for the ones who don't have the promotion points they have to frantically scramble to get the promotion points to hit e5
My great grandpa was corporal rank in WW2, he fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a private but because of some acts if bravery or something (I can't remember exactly) and was then promoted Edit: now that I think about it, some of his other squadmates might've gotten killed and so he was promoted by default
Three days after getting pinned CPL I was placed as a section NCO in charge of 11 people, all of them my friends and all of them older than me. You talk about the most enjoyable and the most stressful job in the world. You get to be the leader to people you care about and take care of them but now you have to find that balance of “During work I’m not your friend, I’m your NCO.” Definitely had some long and stressful days. Thankfully I just made points for June.
In the Marine Corps in the 80s when I got promoted to CPL I could go to the NCO/officer line in the chow hall and to the NCO club on base …. Different times… they were better
When I was on active duty the promotion points were maxed out, so I was stuck in a long line of people who were waiting for promotion to E5. Our company needed NCOs to fill Team Leader slots, so I got promoted to Corporal to fill that slot. Funny how the Army had "too many Sergeants", while having a shortage of Sergeants.🙄 I didn't understand it then, and I don't understand it now. ✌️❤️
I was a corporal I liked the rank. How I became cpl was my first Sgt was walking around with pin on ranks in his hand. He stopped looked at for a second and handed my a set of cpl pins and said " go see the company clerk" and that's how I became a cpl.
I don't know why people cry about more responsibility. I was filling an E-5 supervisor role as a Corporal in the Marines and it taught me a lot. Ran a shop of ~20 Marines or so and didn't get extra pay for it. Had to do quality assurance as well and inspect all of the maintenance being done throughout the day. Time flies when you're busy. People like to spend their time skating and don't grow or develop any leadership skills because they spent years avoiding it.
The corporal, dismissed most often, but never forget the corporal who changed the world forever and insights soo much emotion from everyone. If you do things might repeat itself again.
@@pavelthefabulous5675 He was a runner in the Infantry, carrying messages and orders at the front, not a mail clerk. He was actually wounded doing that job. He didn't have anything to to do with the mail, so stop vilifying mail clerks. There's enough REAL history. You don't need to make stuff up.
As a specialist who had to take over as squad leader for a month, I was promoted to corporal. I did NCO things and “sat with” the NCOs. I was shortly promoted to SGT as soon as I had time in service requirements met, so it was only for a short while that I wore corporal rank.
That unit patch of the bear and star bring back memories. I loaded two conex containers at the NTC and took them to Texas. They had the same picture as that patch.
It's the worst rank your not really a nco so other NCOs don't respect you your still at an E-4 pay grade doing the job of an E5 pay grade and all of your specialist friends aren't your friends anymore then on top that they could technically given you 48 hours of staff duty 24 hours as runner/assistant and another 24 as the NCO on duty.
In the SADF there more corporals than sargeants, corporals had their own mess. They did most of the training of our recruits. I was a lance-corporal and had a bloody nightmare dealing with the corp and sargeants. In my training squadron I don't even know if we had a lieutenant or a sargeant... never saw them if they existed, we were yelled at by everyone but those two.
@@skipdreadman8765 for all it's attempts to avoid anything English, the British military system continued in some ways in the SADF. The Afrikaaner knew it worked best here.
@@darthorion2002 you have the ugliest senior NCO ranks though. I mean, seriously? Three chevrons and FOUR rockers?! makes me itch, it’s so ugly. Also master gunnery sergeant? Why are y’all reusing so many words for ranks.
Corporals should sit with the NCOs. You're a NCO and should start learning to behave like one. The junior enlisted are no longer your friends, they're you're subordinates. E-5 and above, you need to treat corporals with the same respect you would any other NCO.
In the UK we have 3 types of food halls/ mess’s and Cpl would be in the junior ranks mess along with junior soldiers. Sgt and above are in the SNCOs mess, officers in the officers mess.
Same pay grade is not equal to the same rank. With proper support from the NCOs above them, corporals can be effective supervisors but they are generally underutilized.
In stead of making Squad Leaders rank Sergeants (later Staff Sergeant) in stead of Corporals (as you did in WW1) for the increased command and combat experience, why not have just increased promotion requirements to Corporal and keep Lance Corporal (1 shevron) and keep PFC but maybe as a horizontal bar or something?
I was a Corporal out of RangerSchool in Nam all the senior Officer and NCOs were down Itook over command because I had command authority as a command rank! Later I wD commended on my leadership skills my father was a Master Gunnery in the USMC and N Uncle Corporal Abn Ranger! I say wherever I wanted
A corporal is an E-4 or equivalent to a 3rd Class Petty officer in the Navy. Now, I don’t know about the Army’s hierarchy, but in the Navy that is just about the perfect rank, as far as high enough not to have to do shit jobs, yet low enough to not have a bunch of responsibilities.
In my first unit the SgtMaj had a policy where you only got Cpl. if you passed the board. His logic was that if you were ready to be a Cpl then you were ready to be a Sgt.
I loved being a Cpl, after all the other e4, e5, and even some e6 getting busted for smoking pot (allergic to thc), was promoted to Cpl so I could be a tc of a M-3 Bradley. It made going to e5 a lot easier.
The only benefit I had I when I was a Corporal for 2 years is I didn't get reemed has hard as SGT's did when we fucked up because most just assumed " he's learning how to be an NCO"
I know this youtuber who was an E-4, maybe he got higher, idk ranks. But he denied becoming a corporal by denying going into the course they want him to because he fixed guns.
They wanna give you the responsibility of an NCO but not the privileges or pay. That is what it boils down to. An E-5 is up for CQ and he wants the day off, so he delegates it to the Junior NCO being a Corporal. See how that works? Been there, done that on both sides in the Army.
What are you talking about man? A corporal has all the same respect as an NCO, thats why he got the rank, to make the transition from "sitting with his buddies" to acting like an NCO. By then he should have moved to another platoon anyways to nip any conflict of interests, man you really dont know what your talking about half the time you make these videos.
Uh no you aren’t cool with your friends 😂😂😂 matter of fact they left and you’re now in charge of a 38 year old specialist and a 19 year old pfc but you’re paid the same as your friends
But I have a question, how are you determined to be either a corporal or a specialist? I think you already answered it, but is there any other specifics of becoming a corporal or a specialist?
Its not like at all in the Canadian forces. Imo the Cpl is the best rank, and the mcpl (master corporal) is the worst. And yes a navy mcpl in the Canadian navy is called a master seaman.
It does kind of suck! I got promoted to Corporal when we were deployed and my staff sergeant missed movement! We ran a huge communication Network and so I was in charge of all day shift operations and he was to report to me the entire deployment, oh that wasn't awkward or anything!
i hated that rank. got it in the 90's and was given all the crappy tasks. uggh. but on the good end, i had a good unit where the Specialists were all good. they looked out for me and I looked out for them. 2 hour lunches. Hooah.
Is the corporal similar to the senior airmen in the air force? The only difference the the stripes between senior airman and Sargent it is star in the center on a Sargent it goes from green star on a green background to a blue star on the green background but they don't get a pay raise .
As a Marine, a soldier friend of mine explained that Specialists are overpaid privates and Corporals are underpaid NCOs
damn
@@Pooperz100 specialist is a time in service rank corporal is earned
You the top dog of what s called a Fire Team when you are a Corporal right. Like a three - Four men Recon team plus you? Heard that was did a lot in the Gulf War up until Bosina/ Kosovo buy the Us military
lol I remember going to jump school as a young corporal in the Corps. No drinking policy but I remember buying my whole squad bay a few handles of vodka and setting up this privates projector. Good times. Yes jump masters, I am slick and you never caught me, you sure came close though.
As a military brat I'd rather be a specialist 🤣 I haven't had a lot of good run ins with a corporal and I was a kid🤣🤣🤣
That was my last rank. You get all the responsibility of a Sargent with no respect. Like the Rodney Dangerfield of your platoon.
I was a Corporal and I hated it. I also realized people’s true colors when I got the rank, too. NCOs loved giving me the shit details and shitty soldiers to be in charge of, and some of (whom I thought were) my friends quickly had issues with authority. Fortunately for me, I made Sergeant and PCSd to a better unit.
@@marcusmarcus9158 yes, I did
Bro how does all that shit work man y’all make this shot sound interesting af love the men and woman who serve not so much the leaders in charge god bless
Or you were a dog shit leader
Was my favorite rank in the Marines. Got to do a lot of the fun stuff, passed off a lot of the BS to my Lance Criminals and PFC's. All the fun stuff disappeared at Sgt.
Did you fight in a real war or was it just mostly patrols with the odd engagement ?
@@SergyMilitaryRankings based question.
@@SergyMilitaryRankings Have you? What is your definition of a "real" war.
@@StudleyDuderight two opponents facing eachother with at least overall same capabilities, examples peer conflicts like WWII or near peer like parts of Vietnam war, Korean war and Ukraine war. Then there's stuff like Georgian war and gulf wars that are against opponents so vastly inferior that it's over so fast. Then there's stuff like Chechen war and Afghanistan war or post Iraq war Iraq that's just insurgency
May I ask can you define what’s the fun stuff you are talking about
I used to be a corporal, then my alarm went off. What a nightmare 😟🥹
Was promoted in the US Army as a Corporal after Airborne School. Lots of responsibilities. Led two Soldiers during Hurricane Andrews in Helmsted, FL. Felt really GREAT assisting and protecting civilians in the areas.
That's actually serving our country. Much respect. No respect given to "soldiers" who go off on some government tangent and kill random people overseas they've never met. You really did protect us.
Ok POG
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Thank you for everything you do bro. Our freedom and safety is built off the backs of heros like you. Thanks!
@@bldontmatter5319i still respect them
Skipped corporal went to sergeant then after sergeant went to second lieutenant!!!
How did you able to do this?
@@its_ndiritu049corporal isn’t required, and he commissioned to an officer from an E5
@@its_ndiritu049OCS.. open to enlisted and civilians with a 4 year college degree
I'd always get a kick out of the semi-sarcastic respect I'd give to soldiers I knew who made CPL. I'd lock it up tighter talking to them then my 1stSGT and only ever address them as "corporal".
So, they're "bi-situational" 🤣
And not to mention the extra responsibilities come with no extra benefits such as maybe even like a 50 Cent pay increase.
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There were two kinds of Corporals in the 1980s.
One was a Department of the Army Corporal.
The orders were issued by the DA for promotion. The rank would stay with the soldier during a duty change.
The other was a temporary promotion of an E4 who was in a Team Leader slot for more than 60 days.
The Battalion commander had promotion authority
The moment the soldier was moved to a non leadership duty position, they reverted to a Specialist.
Either way glad a I went straight from E4 Specialist to E5.
Corporals because they technically "leaders" cant hang out with their buddies or the can get fraternization charges.
And Sergeants dont want them around.
I agree worst rank to be in the Army.
Not to mention all of the responsibilities of an NCO without the training or support.
50 years ago, being promoted to Corporal was sort of a milestone in the Marine Corps. It meant something.
As an NCO I treated corporals like fellow NCO's. When I was lower enlisted, I laughed at them. They got bullshit pay for more responsibility.
It's the extra duty and responsibility rank, without the pay...
Corporal and Specialist are the same pay grade but a corporal absolutely outranks a specialist
As an infantrymen
It was an honor to wear those stripes
LOL as 11B1P in the 82nd Replacement Detachment, saw a Corporal who transferring into the 82nd Airborne that there were no Corporals in Division. Never saw a Corporal mugging around in the 82nd Airborne, but I saw plenty of Specialist who served as Team Leaders until they got to BLC back in the late 1980's.
My units chaplain is a major and I was a lcpl, he would always sit and eat with us during mess and pray for us, I’m not religious but best experience ever
Don't you mean lieutenant commander?
@@bangochupchup Australia is slightly different, he had 1 crown which makes him a major, joked with him back in the Korean War he probably fought against my chinese grandpa whom was a captain and he was a private, by the time I got my australia discharge papers I was senior nco, world is getting really small
Off topic but are you a Linux user?
So he did his job?
I would say its one of the cooler ranks. Who said you only had to choose your buddies or the officers. Get in good with both and you increase your chances of opportunities and relationships. Connections are very important. (Edit- last sentence added)
yeah, that's not really how it works. You really do have to pick the homies or the big boys. That's just the nature of the job.
There's this thing called a prohibition on fraternizing with subordinates. You can't just be cool with everyone. That's not how the military works.
Our corporal was the party officer. Made sure no one got too wasted for PT the next day.
New rank of Corporal-Captain....
I remember Pierce and Hunnicutt pulling that off.
LOL
Officer club and mess privileges
Cripes, you're OLD.
In Cromwell's New Model Army (English Civil War era) the corporals held commissions. They commanded pickets and posted sentries.
@@skipdreadman8765 my kids used to ask me if I got drafted....for the North or the South?
Take that specialist rank out and it’ll solve the whole equation……sincerely the United States Marine Corps
Add a lance specialist rank. Lol
As of 2021 In the Army you get Corporal after completing BLC. BLC is a requirement for E5. So an easy way to tell the difference between a Specialist and Corporal, one is promotable the other is not. The Corporal is also officially a junior NCO, the Specialist isn't.
The biggest difference between cpl and sgt is promotion points. With enough promotion points you can go from spc to sgt (or in most cases to cpl as a placeholder until you get promoted to sgt).
But for the ones who don't have the promotion points they have to frantically scramble to get the promotion points to hit e5
My great grandpa was corporal rank in WW2, he fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a private but because of some acts if bravery or something (I can't remember exactly) and was then promoted
Edit: now that I think about it, some of his other squadmates might've gotten killed and so he was promoted by default
Three days after getting pinned CPL I was placed as a section NCO in charge of 11 people, all of them my friends and all of them older than me. You talk about the most enjoyable and the most stressful job in the world. You get to be the leader to people you care about and take care of them but now you have to find that balance of “During work I’m not your friend, I’m your NCO.” Definitely had some long and stressful days. Thankfully I just made points for June.
In the Marine Corps in the 80s when I got promoted to CPL I could go to the NCO/officer line in the chow hall and to the NCO club on base …. Different times… they were better
There is no ambiguity about Corporal in the Marines, that is the only E-4 rank and is definitely an NCO
When I was on active duty the promotion points were maxed out, so I was stuck in a long line of people who were waiting for promotion to E5. Our company needed NCOs to fill Team Leader slots, so I got promoted to Corporal to fill that slot. Funny how the Army had "too many Sergeants", while having a shortage of Sergeants.🙄
I didn't understand it then, and I don't understand it now.
✌️❤️
I filled the slot of Cheif Preventive Medical NCO at E-3. A few years later they finally found an E-8 from one of the teams.
I once heard this quote
" if it wouldn't be a waste of such damned fine enlisted men, I recommend you for O.CS
I still have my ID with my Cpl. rank an Nope, went given was definitely earned.
I was a corporal I liked the rank. How I became cpl was my first Sgt was walking around with pin on ranks in his hand. He stopped looked at for a second and handed my a set of cpl pins and said " go see the company clerk" and that's how I became a cpl.
I find the rank of corporal pretty interesting, in the AF we don't have an E-4 NCO rank.
Not since May of 1991. I was one of the LAST USAF E-4 Sergeants. I put it on in January of 1991 and separated in September of 1997
Lucky bastard.
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Now Corporal is automatic after BLC.
The worst rank in the army is whatever rank you are.
It’s like being in limbo . It really is a hybrid rank . You’re an nco but you don’t get an ncoer . You’re just getting low balled on your pay .
I worked for a Corporal once. He was an Uber douche. Probably not his fault cuz I was a douchey PFC.
Staff Sergeant is more chaotic bc you either stuck at that rank and never earn a promotion ever again
I heard one time that a sergeant major is someone you don't ever mess with
And it that is below a master sergeant rank then I'm confused
Worst. Rank. Ever. I spent a few years as a corporal. All of the work of a sergeant, but none of the pay.
I don't know why people cry about more responsibility. I was filling an E-5 supervisor role as a Corporal in the Marines and it taught me a lot. Ran a shop of ~20 Marines or so and didn't get extra pay for it. Had to do quality assurance as well and inspect all of the maintenance being done throughout the day. Time flies when you're busy. People like to spend their time skating and don't grow or develop any leadership skills because they spent years avoiding it.
You have to go to BLC first before pin to cpl now
Been this way sense July 2021. Just surprising how many people didn't get the memo. Have to get Corporal to get E5 now.
I think it sucked being a SPC… I was a supply sergeant in charge of a few PVT- PFC supply clerks… I had all the responsibility without authority.
The corporal, dismissed most often, but never forget the corporal who changed the world forever and insights soo much emotion from everyone.
If you do things might repeat itself again.
Funni moustache man was a Lance Corporal, and his "MOS" was mail clerk.
So remember that when the mail is running too slow.
@@pavelthefabulous5675 He was a runner in the Infantry, carrying messages and orders at the front, not a mail clerk. He was actually wounded doing that job. He didn't have anything to to do with the mail, so stop vilifying mail clerks. There's enough REAL history. You don't need to make stuff up.
@@skipdreadman8765 I worked S-1 too, I'm not trying to disparage mail clerks but just telling a joke.
@@skipdreadman8765 To be fair though, he was probably closer to a mail orderly.
Corporal Shepard? Is that you?
As a specialist who had to take over as squad leader for a month, I was promoted to corporal. I did NCO things and “sat with” the NCOs. I was shortly promoted to SGT as soon as I had time in service requirements met, so it was only for a short while that I wore corporal rank.
NCOs , the backbone of every service
E4 Mafia life
It's not boosted it's a lateral promotion
On the job training for E5
Lol, same thing in Russian or post USSR countries, in Russian that rank is Ефрейтор (yeh-frehy-tor)
That unit patch of the bear and star bring back memories. I loaded two conex containers at the NTC and took them to Texas. They had the same picture as that patch.
What truly sucks is that even when you go up to corporal you still get paid specialist wage.
It's the worst rank your not really a nco so other NCOs don't respect you your still at an E-4 pay grade doing the job of an E5 pay grade and all of your specialist friends aren't your friends anymore then on top that they could technically given you 48 hours of staff duty 24 hours as runner/assistant and another 24 as the NCO on duty.
In the SADF there more corporals than sargeants, corporals had their own mess. They did most of the training of our recruits. I was a lance-corporal and had a bloody nightmare dealing with the corp and sargeants. In my training squadron I don't even know if we had a lieutenant or a sargeant... never saw them if they existed, we were yelled at by everyone but those two.
I have a great deal of respect for the SADF.
In the British military tradition, corporal is more like a US staff sergeant. A British staff sergeant is more like an American SFC.
@@skipdreadman8765 for all it's attempts to avoid anything English, the British military system continued in some ways in the SADF.
The Afrikaaner knew it worked best here.
Hmmm- they would push people to Acting Jack= 3 stripes....... mostly to fill the CQ rosters!
In the Marine Corps Corporals don’t have an Identity crisis like in the army.
Exactly. It just makes no sense. Just be like the Marines or try to emulate us.
At the very least, the army still has to fix their new leader ship
@@darthorion2002 you have the ugliest senior NCO ranks though. I mean, seriously? Three chevrons and FOUR rockers?! makes me itch, it’s so ugly. Also master gunnery sergeant? Why are y’all reusing so many words for ranks.
@@johnbrown8570 what are you talking about? We have the bad ass ranks.
You’re just mad because you ain’t us.
Corporal was the best rank I ever had. Not low enough to do crap work. Not high enough to be in charge. (MSG Ret, US Army. 18ZW8)
Corporals should sit with the NCOs. You're a NCO and should start learning to behave like one. The junior enlisted are no longer your friends, they're you're subordinates.
E-5 and above, you need to treat corporals with the same respect you would any other NCO.
I tried joining the Marines, but was DQed because I'm Straight and I scored too high on the ASVAB!
Never got to meet my grandfather but he was a corporal. New found respect for that man.
In the UK we have 3 types of food halls/ mess’s and Cpl would be in the junior ranks mess along with junior soldiers. Sgt and above are in the SNCOs mess, officers in the officers mess.
Same pay grade is not equal to the same rank.
With proper support from the NCOs above them, corporals can be effective supervisors but they are generally underutilized.
There's nothing hybrid about it. That corporal is literally an NCO. If he doesn't know that, his NCO's failed him.
NOBODY holds rank over Specialist
In stead of making Squad Leaders rank Sergeants (later Staff Sergeant) in stead of Corporals (as you did in WW1) for the increased command and combat experience, why not have just increased promotion requirements to Corporal and keep Lance Corporal (1 shevron) and keep PFC but maybe as a horizontal bar or something?
I was a Corporal out of RangerSchool in Nam all the senior Officer and NCOs were down Itook over command because I had command authority as a command rank! Later I wD commended on my leadership skills my father was a Master Gunnery in the USMC and N Uncle Corporal Abn Ranger! I say wherever I wanted
In my opinion. They are NCO so they should set with the NCO. But they're the butt of the NCO ranks. LoL
In my country, corporal's different from private is salary. Thay are just private with better salary. If you are not a sergent,nobody listen to you.
A corporal is an E-4 or equivalent to a 3rd Class Petty officer in the Navy. Now, I don’t know about the Army’s hierarchy, but in the Navy that is just about the perfect rank, as far as high enough not to have to do shit jobs, yet low enough to not have a bunch of responsibilities.
In Russia same thing. We have old proverb, sounds like "Even daughter whore better than son - corporal"
In my first unit the SgtMaj had a policy where you only got Cpl. if you passed the board. His logic was that if you were ready to be a Cpl then you were ready to be a Sgt.
I loved being a Cpl, after all the other e4, e5, and even some e6 getting busted for smoking pot (allergic to thc), was promoted to Cpl so I could be a tc of a M-3 Bradley. It made going to e5 a lot easier.
CPL is not that important in the US Army because you guys have so many sergeant and WO (Warrant Officer) ranks.
The only benefit I had I when I was a Corporal for 2 years is I didn't get reemed has hard as SGT's did when we fucked up because most just assumed " he's learning how to be an NCO"
I hate CPL. I literally didn't know what meeting to go to. Lower enlisted, or the NCO room. Then E5s talking shit that I'm in a NCO meeting
PFC is the worst rank for me I just hate being a pvt In general but that’s because I’m in a unit full of only NCOs and Officers so it’s extra shit.
I know this youtuber who was an E-4, maybe he got higher, idk ranks. But he denied becoming a corporal by denying going into the course they want him to because he fixed guns.
They wanna give you the responsibility of an NCO but not the privileges or pay. That is what it boils down to. An E-5 is up for CQ and he wants the day off, so he delegates it to the Junior NCO being a Corporal. See how that works? Been there, done that on both sides in the Army.
What are you talking about man?
A corporal has all the same respect as an NCO, thats why he got the rank, to make the transition from "sitting with his buddies" to acting like an NCO. By then he should have moved to another platoon anyways to nip any conflict of interests, man you really dont know what your talking about half the time you make these videos.
Let’s be honest: if you make Cpl, you never had friends in the first place
Uh no you aren’t cool with your friends 😂😂😂 matter of fact they left and you’re now in charge of a 38 year old specialist and a 19 year old pfc but you’re paid the same as your friends
But I have a question, how are you determined to be either a corporal or a specialist? I think you already answered it, but is there any other specifics of becoming a corporal or a specialist?
Corporals are not a hybrid rank, it anything that's a specialist.
A Corporal is a NCO, weather people like to admit it or not.
Marine Corps is different. If ur a corporal and u find yourself among marines, you'll be treated pretty much the same as a sergeant
Its not like at all in the Canadian forces.
Imo the Cpl is the best rank, and the mcpl (master corporal) is the worst.
And yes a navy mcpl in the Canadian navy is called a master seaman.
Yeah, a Corporal is in no way, shape or form worthy of being compared to NCO
Just No
It does kind of suck! I got promoted to Corporal when we were deployed and my staff sergeant missed movement!
We ran a huge communication Network and so I was in charge of all day shift operations and he was to report to me the entire deployment, oh that wasn't awkward or anything!
100% agreed, been a Corporal for 3 yrs now and i have the responsibilities of a Sgt lol
Definitely worst rank that I’ve experienced so far
i hated that rank. got it in the 90's and was given all the crappy tasks. uggh. but on the good end, i had a good unit where the Specialists were all good. they looked out for me and I looked out for them. 2 hour lunches. Hooah.
I guess in a war corporals are important in the chain of command,if your Sargent gets taken out you can fill the slot and take over his role.?
All of the responsibilities of a NCO, but at the E4 pay.
Corporal Shepherd
I disagree, Corporal was my favorite rank.
No. A private 1 is the worst rank, most bullshit and least pay.
Phenomenal cropping on that image! You must be a marine!
Corporal is the best rank. Too good for the shit jobs, not good enough to have to do the difficult.
Well there not the same rank. Same pay grade but not the same rank.
Hey, if it was good enough for Radar, it should be good enough.
Been there
where can I find the infographic in the background?
Is the corporal similar to the senior airmen in the air force? The only difference the the stripes between senior airman and Sargent it is star in the center on a Sargent it goes from green star on a green background to a blue star on the green background but they don't get a pay raise .
Dunno specialist sounds way cooler than corporal imho
It’s the best sounding worst actual rank in the army
I was a SP5. I guess that doesn't exist in todays Army.