Back to Basics…The Lost Art of Basic Combat Fundamentals

[Pete]

... absolutely correct to a “T”, as far as I’m concerned.

Keep your messages coming, Tracker, you have good input. The expressions "To a T" and "Screwed Up to a T" go back to the old technician grades during World War II. Back then it was a stripes-for-skills kind of thing, which offended the old-school NCOs. My Dad was an E3 technician, two stripes with a T, and later a E4 tech, three stripes and a T. As a courtesy they were called corporal and sergeant, and those ranks were the origin of the later Specialist grades.

[Tracker275]

Keep your messages coming, Tracker, you have good input. The expressions "To a T" and "Screwed Up to a T" go back to the old technician grades during World War II. Back then it was a stripes-for-skills kind of thing, which offended the old-school NCOs. My Dad was an E3 technician, two stripes with a T, and later a E4 tech, three stripes and a T. As a courtesy they were called corporal and sergeant, and those ranks were the origin of the later Specialist grades.

Not to stray off topic, but sometimes looking around...I think the old TSGT, and SPC4-9 are sometimes not a bad thing to bring back. Some folks are definitely more the specialist in their field, and some are the leaders. That would be something of interest to debate in another post...which area I don't know...,but definitely something to ponder in another post/thread outside of this one.