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Guys, to this day, I would never think of addressing an unknown active duty SF SNCO or O as "hey Dude". Unless it was someone I had served with and knew the guy, I wouldn't do it to any AD soldier in uniform.
I'm trying to think what any of my Det COs, Co COs, Team Daddies, or SGMs would have done to me had I walked up and addressed them in that manner, unless invited to do so in the team house, never outside the team. My Co SGM was George H. "Joe" Higgs - I would have been hamburger had I ever addressed him as Joe, and he split my time between the ODB and ODA pretty well in half. When the Scuba Team Daddy (Frankie Dooms) took over as SGM - he still allowed those of us who had been around to call him "Top", but that was a privelege outside of the Co HQ. (any names above are no longer on the active rolls, and should not constitute an OPSEC violation).
In the Co Area, Team house or IFac - things might get a little looser - inside the team, and inside the Company was different from the rest of the world. still professional, but looser. In the world we were expected to be professionals, and treat senior soldiers with the utmost respect.
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