Originally Posted by
Blacksheep
Civilian organizations do not have NCOs. Yet the military certainly do need the division.
I think you are wrong.
Take any manufacturing company with even a handful of workers:
You have the boss/manager or whatever and you have the workers. As the boss many be engaged other tasks there will generally be a chargehand or foreman whose job is to see that work is shared between the workforce. That man is, in effect, the NCO.
There are other groupings, such as a sales team, where the hierarchy may be the manager - (officer) - who sets tasks and targets and the sales team who go do the work. There may be a senior salesman who might cover for the manager when he is on holiday. In this case there is no obvious NCO position.
Was Captain Peacock (Are you being served) the manager (officer) for the floor and Mrs Slocum the leader (SNCO) of the Lingerie section?