First....we don't need to do anything the way the French do it. If we did we would have surrendered and pulled out of Lebanon back in the 80's.
Second....We already have specialized ranks and payscales for technical people. In the aircorps there are air traffic controllers who are all of the C.S. rank or better. The ordnance corps is also a good example of a place where a few privates are kept around for show but most of the company are either officers or senior NCO's. In the other corps units the privates are paid a higher rate based on their technical grade but they don't get a rank because they must still take orders from non-technical NCO's. A good example of this would be in CIS where almost everybody is on some kind of tech pay but they still have to obey infantry NCO's when working with them.
Second....We already have specialized ranks and payscales for technical people. In the aircorps there are air traffic controllers who are all of the C.S. rank or better. The ordnance corps is also a good example of a place where a few privates are kept around for show but most of the company are either officers or senior NCO's. In the other corps units the privates are paid a higher rate based on their technical grade but they don't get a rank because they must still take orders from non-technical NCO's. A good example of this would be in CIS where almost everybody is on some kind of tech pay but they still have to obey infantry NCO's when working with them.
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