← I was a sergeant. Then I reenlisted in the Guard. 🔊✎
← You need to be a sergeant to become a guard? 🔊✎
← In principle, yes. Sergeant or in the special detail. 🔊✎
← Once a sergeant becomes a guard, he loses his stripes. Like, if I meet an army recruit, he doesn't have to salute me. 🔊✎
← So about salary: you get the ordinary guard salary, same as the special detail, and then for six months, to make sure you don't lose out, supplement to bring you up to sergeant's salary. But if you're a guard, you get other stuff. Free lodging, heating, family allowance. 🔊✎
← So in the end, a guard with a wife and two kids makes more than an active duty sergeant. 🔊✎
← Yeah. See, that's why the guards and the sergeants don't get on. Maybe you've noticed, the sergeants say they don't reckon much to the guards. 🔊✎
← On the other hand, people have more respect for a guard than for an active sergeant. A guard, he's a soldier, sure, but he's almost a government employee. 🔊✎
← Us guards can do anything! You see why the active sergeants are jealous. 🔊✎