This isn't unusual. I can't tell you how many times in my 24 years of service ending as a Master Sergeant how many officer fuckups the enlisted Corps had to fix.
The Officer Corp relies on how much ass they can kiss to get promoted if they want to get past Captain (Air Force example). Not an exaggeration. The Enlisted Corps relies on Experience, knowledge, and value to the team to get promoted. Example: Leadership can hate your guts, but if your training and testing for rank pans out....they can eat a dick and like it: you get promoted based on your own merit. World of difference....and it shows.
Disclaimer: Despite the majority, there are some...and I stress SOME...excellent officers and these are readily identified and embraced by the Enlisted Corp like Gold. For those officers, we would do anything within scope of our professions.
Why theeadership is asking this is mybquestion? You have regular enlisted who are thinking clearer than the officer corps.
This isn't unusual. I can't tell you how many times in my 24 years of service ending as a Master Sergeant how many officer fuckups the enlisted Corps had to fix.
The Officer Corp relies on how much ass they can kiss to get promoted if they want to get past Captain (Air Force example). Not an exaggeration. The Enlisted Corps relies on Experience, knowledge, and value to the team to get promoted. Example: Leadership can hate your guts, but if your training and testing for rank pans out....they can eat a dick and like it: you get promoted based on your own merit. World of difference....and it shows.
Disclaimer: Despite the majority, there are some...and I stress SOME...excellent officers and these are readily identified and embraced by the Enlisted Corp like Gold. For those officers, we would do anything within scope of our professions.
The best officers I’ve ever worked for were prior enlisted.
Yup, green to gold baby (former cadre at OCS here). Two types of officers... political and in the trenches side by side.
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