The History of the Marine Corp Rank Structure and Why Its Important

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The history of the marine corp rank structure and why its important by: knowing and obaying the military personel who are above you is probably one of the most crusial things a marine or any person in the military has to do. If you don't know your rank struction or chain of command your not going to be able to do your job properly. like if a pfc when to a master sargent to ask him a question about your job your going to get fucked up for not using your chain of command. so heres a little about the ranks and the responsabilities of enlisted marines. Pfc or perfect for cleaning as some would say. i was once told that all a pfc has to do is clean, learn his job, and exersise. so i better do that to the best of my ability bc if i cant even do those things right that i better go back to boot camp. lcpl does have very many responsibilities either but they look after the pfc since they have been around a little bit long and are more experienced. next we have non-commissioned officers its said that they are the backbone of the marine corp. theres cpls and sgts, sgts tell cpls what to do and cpls get all the lcpls and below to do what needs to get done while suporvising to make sure everything goes right. than theres sncos, ssgt, gysgt, msgt, 1stsgt, MGysgt, sgtmaj, and sgtmaj of the marine corp.the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps is a billet and special rank, conferred on the senior enlisted Marine of the entire Marine Corps, personally selected by the Commandant of the Marine Corps. its one of the only billets which rate modified rank insignia in place of the traditional rank insignia. the other billet is gunner. so as you can see theres a lot of ranks to remember, but in time you will learn and reconize every rank in the marine corp. if you know the rank structor than you should know the chain of command as a pfc if you have a question you ask a lcpl and if he

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