Not sticking up for ANYONE and if guilty of misconduct, malaise or malfeasance find the nearest yardarm and dispatch them.
That said, they have to work with what is sent to them and sometimes if one ‘complains’ too much, they are relieved.
Back during the McNamara 100,000 campaign, a lot of ‘bad apples’ were PUT in the military and the DIs had to cope with them.
The services had to put a cap on how many people they could ‘flunk out’ of boot camp and some of the ‘wise guys’ would ‘act right’ until the ‘allowed’ number were vanished forever.
During that period some of the ‘Drug Gangs’ had people - otherwise ineligible - enlist to get to SE Asia to get into the drug field....
The CO had absolute command and he could have been ‘shacked up in Long Beach’ and something happen on his ship and HE was completely at fault.
The Pueblo incident ‘changed’ a lot of that when they tried to charge Capt Bucher with dereliction of duty because he didn’t properly dispose of the classified material in a timely manner.
His ‘defense’ was that he was NOT allowed into certain spaces and there was no way he could be ‘responsible’ if he wasn’t allowed free movement aboard his ship.
After that the CO is ‘God Almight’ took a hit and like anything else, the first watering down of ANY procedure, standard, rule etc just leads to general chaos.
His ‘defense’ was that he was NOT allowed into certain spaces and there was no way he could be ‘responsible’ if he wasn’t allowed free movement aboard his ship.
He was correct. He could have had a TS and still not allowed in the SecGrp’s op areas.