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Offline Hawklore

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« on: November 04, 2004, 11:15:46 AM »
Anyone got any information on what they did, I know they tend to specialize in stuff.. And did they see combat? I've seen stories of someseing combat...

I just seem to be out of ideas for searching on google...
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« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2004, 11:19:32 AM »
By techs do you mean engineers?  Yes, they saw a lot of combat, in addition to all their other duties.  It shouldn't be hard to find info on the net.
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« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2004, 11:26:34 AM »
well, there are Tech ranks in the army during WWII...
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« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2004, 11:56:08 AM »
the way i understand it was that tech part was a way of paying a guy more without the leadership expectations of the higher nco ranks. i think tech became specialist over the years until they finaly did away with it. now a specialist is an E-4. corp. is an E-4 too.
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« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2004, 05:33:41 PM »
Tech Sgt. was a rank givin mostly to mechanics and specialists and such.

These guys could run a motor pool or a mait. flight but real GIJO platoon Sgts. they were not.


The USAF still has TSgt but it's not a specialty rank just E6

Keep in mind the US army also had what we call the USAF today in it at one point in time.

In addition I think there was also a seperate rank structure for logistics types.  You'd see them with regular chevrons on thier sleeves but they'd have a T in them.


The Marines used to have Tech Sgt. as well
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