Anyone saluted the wrong rank working on a Joint Base?

WO1 (Join to see) - you know what WOCS are good for? You throw them at wabbits...

Maj Gail Lofdahl - .....
One Afternoon, I Walked Into A Classroom , Where I Took A Program In Basic Economics.
I Took One Look At The Instructor, Just As He Started Staring At Me..
About The Same Time We Both Said "Don't I Know You"?.. For The Next 2 Weeks Or So, We'd Try To Figure Out Why.... Eventually, As He Was Writing Something On The Black Board; All Of A Sudden He STOPPED.... Paused For A Second Or Two.
Quickly SWUNG AROUND !! While Tossing The Chalk Into The Air, And SCREAMED OUT, Right In Front Of The Class, .. "SON-Of A- BI*CH, OSAN AFB, SOUTH KOREA, RIGHT"?
"I Remember You, But I Was Drunk All The Time, And Everyone Knew Me As "SCOTCH".. .
And He Was ABSOLUTELY Right...
Drunk On His A**, Every Time We Saw Him In Town.

A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney - Ah, yes. Osan. Where alcoholics go to be inconspicuous. I remember going out with town patrol on "health and welfare" inspections. We were out one New Year's Eve, and I don't think a sober person stumbled through the gate after 9 p.m. The last I saw of one of my friends that night, she was being carried down the street by six of her co-workers who were carrying her on their shoulders like a corpse. Fun times.

Maj Gail Lofdahl - ....
LMAO: Here's My Disclaimer....... But I Sure Loved OSAN
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I go for the Air Force. lol

OK so as a young Air Force Cop working the base gates, I was ALWAYS saluting the wrong people, the Officer Stickers were Blue and the car itself was to be saluted even IF the dependent Wife OR kid, was driving onto the base, BUT also the Civilian Contractor's stickers were green, and under the yellowish flood lights at the gates at night you could not tell green from blue so I ended up saluting a lot of civilians that did NOT deserve one. Now also the persons with paper temp tags (TDY etc.) who were wearing god knows what on their shoulders or on their collars, it was just best to salute and move on to the next car, so it was always better to just whip it out and IF wrong no biggie. Now then when I first got stationed in Alaska, I was NOT aware that Canadian Generals wore Maple leaves instead of stars , so when a Canadian staff car came through with ONE Maple leave on the front plate, I failed to salute and yes I heard about it from my desk sergeant not long afterwards :-)

At least with Naval Officers you don't need to remember Rate. The Navy was going to do away with the Ratings and instead going to just Rank. It instigated a Navy wide mutiny among the enlisted. So my son remains MA1 Cable. He has been boarded for Chief, but even after all of these years, my knowledge of how the Navy promotes is pretty limited.

SSgt Frank Lanford - good grief, what a mess!

A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney - Now that did get a laugh out of Me, I kind of
doubt though the response would be very good. lol Might add, well if You would just keep Your Mother off the street... .

SMSgt Lawrence McCarter - ....
Don't Kid Yourself, I DID Tell The SOB's That.
Being The Last Of 6 Kids, I Had To Learn Self-Defense Early In Life;
And Develop a "FA-Q" Attitude.....They Were "Life's Tools Of Survival".

To me Navy ranks make way more sense. Three seaman ranks, three Petty Officer ranks, three Chief Petty Officer ranks. And easy to tell specialities.

SPC Lyle Montgomery - I used that as a lowly PFC and LCPL.