Posted on 08/15/2013 6:00:49 AM PDT by shortstop
If Army leaders all along the command chain had done their jobs,
If they had done their jobs they would be persecuted by the PC police. So they’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t. They should have done it and been damned protecting our nation.
I have always found it hard to believe that a Private First Class (an E-2, I think) would have the clearance AND the autonomy to pull this off. I would think he would have been supervised by at least a Corporal. But apparently he worked unsupervised with a security clearance higher than most staff officers.
There should have been a long chain of command between a PFC and the Generals. Lots of NCOs, Senior NCOs, Lieutenants, Captains, Majors and various Colonels.
Each shift should have had the Duty NCO and Duty Officer. WHo did routine security inspections? Who was the IG?
If Bradley WAS totally unsupervised, this is beginning to look like a deliberate document dump.
“Hey, PFC, watch the candy store, we’re all heading to the club for the rest of the week! Oh, BTW don’t look at or take anything while you are here all by yourself.”
Yet your dad’s Army would very likely have been able to spot the issues, and deal with them effectively. No, not by “mentoring” and “babysitting” for sure. At least not the way the terms are used today.
I immediately had to call my E-6 at home and get him down there to handle it. Monday morning I had to file a report with the station CO which scared me because I was supposed to head home on a 30 day leave the following day. By the end of the day Monday, my clearance had been updated to TS and that was the end of that.......
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