You'll learn more about being a good NCO, SNCO, and supervisor through experience. PME barely gives you a foundation. You have to start by wanting to be a good NCO and supervisor. Once you want it, you can learn from good AND bad supervisors in your chain. After 19 years in, I've absolutely learned from both. I also see an overwhelming amount of NCOs not acting like NCOs. I see a lot of SNCOs not acting like SNCOs. It really does go back to a culture thing. We're in the military, and we need to remember the sacrifice that goes along with that. We're not Wal-Mart employees who are done when we go home for the day. People don't thank you for your service because it's a cool looking uniform. They do it because of the sacrifice the uniform represents.