>>>>>>Good one, Dragan. Took a sergeant to run a stapler?
>>>>>
>>>>>The actual rank was "zastavnik" (banner man), which was the higher sub-officer, something like a senior senior sargeant. Top rank for guys with high school.
>>>
>>>Starshina in Russian Army, BTW.
>>>:)
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>>From hard drives to military ranks - talk about thread drift :-) Thanks, Nick!
>
>Well, Russian starshina drives soldiers hard [way]... :)

It seems that sergeants are the same everywhere. Luckily, I never had to deal with any - only CPO's. They were 'hard' enough to get and keep me in line.