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Master Gunnery Sergeants serve as technical experts in their Military Occupation Specialty and offer leadership in their field to large Marine units like companies and battalions. Master Gunnery Sergeants may be involved in fields such as logistics, aviation, artillery, and more.

COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS – the highest-ranking Marine Officer, also a four-star general, serves on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

To advance to the rank of gunnery sergeant, you need six years TIS and three years TIG. Gunnery sergeants usually serve at the company level, though they may also serve at battalion level or work with training units and recruiting stations as needed.

Gunnery sergeants (E-7) indicate their preferred promotional track on their annual evaluations. First sergeants (E-8) and sergeants major (E-9) serve as senior enlisted advisors assisting the commanding officer in matters of discipline, administration, and the morale and welfare of the unit.

Gunnery Sergeant (GySgt) is the seventh enlisted rank in the United States Marine Corps, above staff sergeant and below master sergeant and first sergeant, and is a senior non-commissioned officer (SNCO). It has a pay grade of E-7.

So, yes, master gunnery sergeants are definitely respected by U.S. Marine Corps officers.

General Order 1: To take charge of this post and all government property in view. General Order 2: To walk my post in a military manner, keeping always on the alert and observing everything that takes place within sight or hearing. General Order 3: To report all violations of orders I am instructed to enforce.

Master Gunnery Sergeants wear a distinct rank insignia with a stylized bursting bomb between three gold chevrons and four gold rockers, often jokingly referred to as the “Pineapple Patch” due to the fruit it resembles.