Command Sergeant Major…

My good buddy Jerry sent this photo to me.  It’s not every day you see an RX3 parked in the brigade’s Command Sergeant Major spot, but then Jerry is not an every day kind of guy…

Jerry wears the absolute highest NCO rank in the US Army…the exalted Command Sergeant Major designation.  When I was in the Army the senior NCOs ran the show and the CSM ran the senior NCOs.  The senior NCOs in the US Army were and are amazing, and the brigade CSM is at the apex of the real leaders who make things happen.   I think the entire time I was in the Army, I met only one Command Sergeant Major.  I was a lowly lieutenant in awe of my platoon sergeant, and a Command Sergeant Major is about a zillion levels above a platoon sergeant.

Jerry is in the same branch of the Army I was in way back when (that’s a photo of me with my platoon sergeant more than 40 years ago).   Jerry wrote to me a couple of years ago asking about the RX3 and we’ve had a number of great conversations about motorcycles, the RX3, and the US Army since then.   Jerry knows a good thing when he sees it, and he was one of the first guys to get an RX3.

Jerry, thanks for sending that photo to me.  It made my day.