Non-Deployed NCO Already Acts like Non-Deployed SNCO

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Though Cpl. Hector Garcia is a non-commissioned officer who has never deployed to combat, it would be hard to guess it from his extreme levels of motivation, intensity, and excitability, all of which are more typical of a senior staff non-commissioned officer (SNCO) who has never deployed to combat.

That is because every day, Garcia …