Originally Posted by
Blacksheep
When serving at BZN I encountered a 10 Squadron Captain who wouldn't speak to ground crew directly, but tried to conduct business through the Flight Engineer. In my case unsuccessfully - I just walked away from his aircraft and asked our LSS Flight Commander to speak to him.
We had a sqn cdr on a lower numbered sqn than 10 who insisted we called out ground crew by rank:
Ch Tech turn the aircraft around, cpl empty the toilet etc
"Ben, would you rather we called you Chief Tech or Ben?". Ben, Sir, that way I know you know me rather than just recognition the badge.