11B4V....until the Army made me a zulu and sent me to unfuck some legs.
About the closest things I sat behind that resembled a "desk" had either .50's, 7.62's, or a 25MM cannon mounted on them.
Granted, a senior NCO isn't normally the number one muldoon through the breach, but that's because WE teach young pups like YOU to do the job. We ARE the ones, however, that end up cutting you young pups out of the twisted wreckage of a vehicle that gets blown the fuck up, so you and your buds don't have to deal with the mess, and we're also the ones that identify targets, and monitor and control your rates of fire...because y'all can sometimes get a little amped the fuck up. We do things like put your ass on details to get you off the line for a rest when you show signs of "fatigue", let you cry in a corner undisturbed when you need to, and make sure that all your buddies are carried off the objective and accounted for prior to exfil. We do a LOT of shit you young pups know NOTHING about, however, of all the things a senior line NCO does, THE most important thing we do is to make sure your team leaders, squad leaders, and platoon sergeants don't use good men to do a job that high explosives can do better, and in that, I was a motherfuckin' EXPERT.
Being a senior NCO, and a student of history, also meant that I fully understood that what WE did wasn't shyte compared to our forefathers due to the fact that Haj SUCKS, he had NO air assets, limited and largely ineffective indirect fire assets, no armor, and he had the marksmanship abilities and discipline of a mongoloid retard. Compare that with taking on the Wehrmact, the Imperial Japanese Army, the soviet equipped North Korean army, or the soviet equipped North Vietnamese army, and you'll find there IS no comparison.
We got over compared to our forefathers, but we don't choose our "wars", do we?
The way I see it, a home invader isn't any better than the tards' that were trying to kill you, me, and our friends. And like Haj, they'll TRY to hide their intent as long as possible so as not to get shot the fuck in the face.