What's a Marine Staff NCO? Well aside from all the creeds and poster Marine stuff sometimes you're dad. Or gramps, you are the one everyone looks to when the chips are down.
You're an instructor, a task master, or "that no good S.O.B!". You're the guy YOU wanted to be when you grow up. You're bastard at times, but you know you need to be to maintain dicipline.
You are "comand presence". You are a good listener, a story teller, a joker, a killer, or a cop when you need to be. You're judge and joury, or a lifeguard.
As I've told others in my life I'm nothing special. I started my adult life as a Marine recruit at the age of 17 in 1974. With little formal education I enlisted in the reserve in Billings Montana. My parents thought it was a good choice for me, albeit not totally my own. Once in I totally committed myself to the Marine ideal, and though I've had some tough times in the past 32 years, I've always kept and used what I learned in the Marines as a building block for my life.
Semper Fi
-Roger W. Schultz