Some interesting manuals and catalog

[RCS]

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Some interesting reading and somewhat difficult to find, condition is very good to excellent.
The FAL T.48 manual and the Stoner 63 are my favorites

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[Paul S.]

I love the potentially conspiratorial notation in the upper right hand corner. "CONFIDENTIAL FOR THE USE OF OFFICERS AND ENLISTED MEN ONLY".

"Don't let the NCOs see this! They're not to know any of this."

[browningautorifle]

NCOs ARE in fact EMs.

[Paul S.]

True. And yet as you know having been an NCO, stereotypically NCOs see themselves as a distinctly separate class and the lower ranks see them as something not quite human - or at least fatherless and mean-minded while officers historically have had a love or hate relationship with them.

[browningautorifle]

I was one too and agree completely...

[Peter Laidler]

In the UK we had yet another class/type.......... Junior AND Senior NCO's. Then in the Senior NCO class came yet ANOTHER class. The superior WARRANT rank no less. Then at the top of that tree was God himself, the senior, senior Warrant Officer, the.............. ***'s. I can't bring myself to speak or write the three initials without a phobia coming on. Can you see where this is going BAR and Muffer?

These ***'s even caused the junior Commissioned ranks to stumble over their words. Many a time I had wanted to say to a ranting, shouting and bawling *** on a busy range day or some Field exercise '.......xxxxing hell ***, just chill out for a day or two and see how much better life could be all round......'. Nope...., never did..... I was too scared!

[muffett.2008]

Do you realise how much effort and training it takes to be like that Pete?
ASM's and RSM's have to really work on it you know, we couldn't just go and hide in the Officers Mess.

[browningautorifle]

Yes, we had junior and senior NCOs and within the mess it was broken into the Warrant's and Sgt's mess...we'd done away with the W1 and W2 by 1970. RSM and CSMs by then...

[Peter Laidler]

What category do CQMS's and RQMS's fall in then BAR? They are Warrant rank here but............ Never got to those ranks as I skipped from Sgt to 2Lt. so never really understood them either. You could say that I went from the lowliest senior NCO rank to the even lowlier Commissioned rank. Which due to the way the system works I had to remain at for another 5 (or was it 3?) years then plough upwards yet again.......... and it ain't easy as a was-then reservist

[browningautorifle]

Company quartermaster and Regimental...regimental would be an MWO (W2 to you)...and a Supply tech trade. The Company Quartermaster would be a Warrant Officer, Staffie to you, and understudying the Company Sgt Maj position. He'd be a regimental position number... If the CSM was away, he'd step up. He had the best junior NCO for his assistant(his choice) and was next up for promotion to W2.

I was lucky, I was a SNR NCO from '82 to '08 so I have a handle on them...