The first time you met your team chief..

[Viper1]

Just met mine today - I think I was having a minor heart attack in the process but I didnt really think of it until I got in the car later. Was wondering if anyone else had the same experience?

We stand on the shoulders of giants. The first Team Sergeant I met was a big bear of a man from Tennessee who was on his way out to a SOCEUR position. He looked at me and said, "Sir, good job on PT, you are good with the guys...now go gain about ten more pounds of muscle...oh by the way, what's your ethnic background?" After I explained the melting pot that is my family tree he said "Good, we don't have one of those...we've got the entire color wheel on the team, you'll fit right in." HA!

Words cannot describe my next team sergeant and Warrant officer (Chief). Both were former 18D medics who had kept up relatively well with credentialing. Both were MFF guys, over 40, both Ranger-qualified, and between the two of them they have 16 combat deployments. To say I was in awe was an understatement. Case in Point: My Battalion Commander called me "the luckiest son-of-a-bitch in Group" for being paired with those two.

Best 27 months of my life. Period the end.

 

[x SF med]

Lets just put it this way... my first Team Sergeant went on to become the CSM of an SF Group.

 

[AWP]

Lets just put it this way... my first Team Sergeant went on to become the CSM of an SF Group.

A hardship bonus for dealing with you.

 

[x SF med]

A hardship bonus for dealing with you.

:whatever::wall:

 

[buzzkill.0621]

Never had the privilege of being on a team, but I have met plenty of team chiefs.
They either seem to be the quiet type that you know you just don't want to rub the wrong way, or happy go lucky guys that you still wouldn't want to rub the wrong way.

 

[The Hate Ape]

Saw the notifications for this thread revival as it has been over two years now.

Sadly, Master Sergeant Aaron C . Torian was killed on our Afghanistan deployment nearly a year after meeting him for the first time on February 15th, 2014. Earlier this year I made the trip to Arlington national cemetery on the exact date and drove back home to North Carolina shortly after. At his grave site I found a spent long-rifle casing, a Sierra Nevada bottle cap, a Raider coin, and plenty of flowers - I was glad to see this.

H/A