NCOs teach our Soldiers when not to shoot, which is sometimes more important than shooting. Sergeants take the theory of being a Soldier and apply it to people to make them Soldiers. NCOs advise and mentor officers. Starting at the platoon level, our Army marries an officer and a seasoned NCO to accomplish missions. And it works. The combination of commission and noncommissioned officer is powerful and a critical difference in our Army. Senior NCOs advise senior officers about all enlisted issues and concerns. Officers count on NCOs for recommendations on their most critical decisions. Want the truth, ask an NCO.
Mandarin (/ËmÃ¦ndÉrÉªn, -drÉªn/; simplified Chinese: å®è¯; traditional Chinese: å®è©±; pinyin: GuÄnhuÃ ; literally: speech of officials) is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of Standard Mandarin or Standard Chinese.
Putonghua/Guoyu, often called Mandarin, is the official standard language used by the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Singapore (where it is called Huayu or simply Chinese). It is based on the Beijing dialect, which is the dialect of Mandarin as spoken in Beijing.