Posted on 10/24/2014 4:39:14 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The commander of a Fort Carson helicopter battalion objected when subordinates talked about a toxic command climate, according to documents obtained by The Gazette.
"You want toxic? I'll show you toxic," Lt. Col. Tammy Baugh allegedly told soldiers in the 1st Battalion of the 25th Aviation Regiment, documents said.
A 263-page Army investigation report released under the Freedom of Information Act portrays Baugh as a foul-mouthed boss who belittled soldiers, threw things during a meeting and sometimes stormed out of battalion gatherings.
Baugh and the battalion's command sergeant major were temporarily relieved in July, but later placed back in command despite the scathing report.
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In her statement, Baugh said her critics are slackers.
"It seems that those who cannot meet the standard have the loudest voice," she wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...
The Army’s own version of Holly Graf.
,,,,,,,, no one is more TOXIC than 0bama . . .
Affirmative action in....action!
Don’t ask?
Don’t tell?
Don’t LEAD.
Guess who’s baaaaack, tho???
She should look in the mirror when she says that.
“manning” topping out at 86 percent.
I think I see the problem, obviously a tad sexist, it should be staffing or resources.
In 1996 I was the engineering manager for a combined company effort to build the SINCGARS radio. We were teamed with General Dynamics and they had a Lt. Colonel on site. We were in a meeting in the Colonel’s conference room discussing how to handle the problem of the day. I had a mountain of data showing that the problem was X. The Colonel mistakenly had jumped to the conclusion that the problem was Y and was insisting on a solution that was going to cost an extra half million and not resolve the issue. As I started my presentation he slowly and dramatically got up. The GD people looked frightened and some of them slid down in their chairs. The Colonel very slowly closed the door and turned. Then he laid into me like a drill sergeant dressing down a recruit. I mean the veins in his face and hands stood out. He was red in the face and literally spewing saliva. I waited for him to finish and then continued. It looked as though some of the GD people were going to faint. The Colonel looked surprised, then determined and he launched into an even more horrific harangue this time with foul language. I waited for him to stop and said something like, “We need to stay focused on the facts. If we adopt my proposal we can stay on schedule and resol—“ He launched in again, this time stomping towards me as if he was going to hit me. My boss quietly leaned over, touched my leg and said, “Let him have his way.” Well, if your boss isn’t going to support you then you need to concede.
I was astonished by the Colonel’s behavior. He had several government people there and one I’d become friends with told me that the Army hated him and that was why he’d been posted here at a program the Army didn’t like and really wanted to be rid of. And, indeed, through some political missteps GD and my company did lose the contract to the Army’s favored vendor, ITT.
My data was proven correct and we lost much schedule and wasted much money due to this man.
I was astonished that the Army would let an incompetent man such as that rise to his level of authority where he could really waste lots of money.
I don’t see aviator wings on the LTC.
Wore mine on the same uniform until I was 62.
That face makes me glad I’m retired. J.S.
Could not possibly be worse than my first squadron commander.
That said, karma is only a bitch, if you are one.
"It seems that those who cannot meet the standard have the loudest voice," she wrote.said the cow that didn't have to meet male standards...
A guy like that would be welcome as a junior supervisor wannabe at any public TV station.
Look like an angry sexually repressed bu+ch dy#e to me...
Sounds to me like your boss wasn't failing to support you, he was making a good tactical move. Obviously everyone present knew the situation and knew who the problem was. Sometimes when people are just totally intransigent and about to create a problem the best move is to just by G let them have their way, right there in front of everyone.
After the fact people will say that you did your part.
Accidents happen, you know, kinda like the ones that you/I/we ALMOST secretly kinda wish would happen to the perpetrators of vote fraud.
I once worked for what we called a “screamer” full Colonel. He never opened his mouth that he wasnt yelling at someone. Never any praise, just criticism. We had a young Captain on the Brigade staff who was the maintenance officer and the Colonel rode his back merciless at every staff call and meeting. I was the S1 and worked closely with him and the Deputy BDE Cdr and had the good fortune to avoid his rants most of the time. Near the end of my tour of duty with him, he went off at the Deputy and me to the point of being irrational and we just looked at each other and kept quiet. Well, that Colonel made his third star before retiring.
I had a female company commander when I was stationed in Pensacola, if she was feeling malign, she would line us up for inspection on Friday afternoon and leave us standing in the sun for an hour before she came out to inspect us. She would fail me every time for sweating and restrict me to base for the weekend.
After 3 straight inspection failure, I had to go stand in front of the Old Man. He asked me if I had any excuses. I told him no, no excuse, I would fail every inspection. That got his attention, I explained that I wasn’t from Florida and if you stand me for an hour in the summer heat I was going to sweat and I would continue failing inspections. His face got red and his eyes started blazing, he just told me to get out of his office. I never saw any bad paper and we never stood inspection in the afternoon sun again.
I’m hoping that woman ended her career as a Lt.
Women are not men.
As such, they don’t know how men think, or what motivates men.
Ergo, a woman leading a group of men is a disaster waiting to happen.
Am I the only one that think it a bit odd that Start and Stripes published this story? I can see an article that would comment on overall morale in a much larger command but I don’t think I’ve ever seen an article zero in on problems within a single battalion.
Must be some good background on this ...
It's the new military. Men had better get used to it. It is here to say until we get either get beaten thoroughly by a ruthless enemy or the Marxists assume total control. Then they'll set up their own army of selected puppet troops which they can use to oppress the rest of us with.
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