[CaptainCrunch]

I expect that you've gotten the what is your job speech right.

Young officers always get asked what they're job is.

Usually they give the standard lines of leadership and preparation and all of that stuff.

And then the hammer falls.

As a new young officer, your job is to do whatever your senior officer tells you to do, but he's too busy to hold your hand, so your job is to do whatever your senior NCO tells you to do.

Basically for a young officer, sh%t doesn't slide down, it comes from every direction.

A Warrant officer, Sergent and even a Master Corporal is going to think that your the dumbest weakest most ill prepared person on the planet and that they're going to have to nurse maid you so you don't make them look bad. The officers over you will show up whenever you screw up, but when you do well they're no way to be found.

I had friends who were officers and they all said the same thing about the first year, its a combination of terrifying and exhilarating as you learn.