Talk:Gunnery sergeant

message: :The only time the term "Gunny" is unacceptable is in ultra-formal situations.
I added that some Gunnery Sergeants don't like to be addressed by that term, I personally knew one in my time in the Corps. Most Gunnies understand that the term is an expression of respect and appreciation. Del arte 19:04, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: Should Leroy Jethro Gibbs really be listed as a "Notable Gunnery Sergeant?"  This is a fictional character, not a real Gunnery Sergeant.  Such a designation would seem to better belong in a "Gunnery Sergeants in Popular Culture" section that could also reference the character R. Lee Ermey played in Full Metal Jacket and other fictional Gunnys.  As it stands now, the Gibbs link detracts from the real Gunnys listed above him Echtoran (talk) 03:59, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable Gunnery Sergeants

message: The use of He/She is a neologism that has been inflicted upon us by the politically correct speech movement, and could not possibly have been used in 1912 testimony. The source you provided confirms this. I have corrected the quoted material on the page to match the original. Amccray (talk) 14:42, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Quote did not match source

message: I think this reference to "field First Sergeant" is referring to "a First Sergeant" who happens to be stationed out in the field as opposed to a desk on a base. Field First Sergeant, as the name of the rank, I agree with this revert  Mlpearc (open channel) 23:39, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Field First Sergeant 

message: I noticed a number of references using the url to a Google Book link. I though editors might be interested in a tool which takes a link as input and creates a (usually) properly formatted ref.
Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books
I used it to improve two such references.
It really helps creates a much cleaner list of references. I hope you will try it. S Philbrick(Talk) 17:27, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: What, pray tell, is this fascination with fictional characters of any military rank? In this article alone, we now have almost twice as many fictional gunnery sergeants listed as we do real ones. As Wikipedia purports to exist as an encyclopaedia, why do we allow this proliferation of "pop culture" references, which in my view, does nothing more than promote the denigration of our product into a compendium of useless information. Seriously, if one is researching "gunnery sergeant," for example, is it really important that Frank Sutton portrayed GySgt Vincent Carter in Gomer Pyle, USMC?
:I tend to remove all pop-culture cruft in comic book articles unless there is some significance to it. I think we should remove it in articles like these to. The thing about rank is that people tend to change go up or down in them so listing any kind of person who's had or is the rank at the moment is problematic.★Trekker (talk) 20:29, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I don't believe fictional characters should be listed at all. For real rank-holders, while it is possible that one's rank may change after a signal event in that same one's life or career, generally speaking the reason one would be "notable" would be for an achievement or event while in the rank in which the article concerns, or by the rank the cited individual was most famous for holding. A couple of examples: Sergeant Alvin York was actually a corporal when he performed the heroic actions in WWI for which he is honored (and later served as a major and a colonel during WWII) and "General" (Brevet Major General) George Custer was actually a lieutenant colonel when he was killed at the Little Big Horn. However, Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone was killed on Iwo Jima while serving as a gunnery sergeant and GySgt Carlos Hathcock, while he was medically retired as a gunnery sergeant, did not perform all of his sniper duties in that rank. So, for real rank holders it would depend upon the rank held when that person did whatever it was, or was most "notable" for, holding at the time of the event, during their career, or at the time of their death. For York and Custer they were not "most notable" for having served as (and for Custer died as), a corporal or lieutenant colonel, respectively, while both Basilone and Hathcock are both most well known as gunnery sergeants.CobraDragoon (talk) 14:51, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I completely agree with you, but remember to sign your posts man.★Trekker (talk) 14:17, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fictional Gunnery Sergeants