*perk*...care to elaborate?
I served with CDR Hill on a shore tour prior to his at sea command tour, he was my immediate superior. I know CDR Hill has nothing but the best intentions in mind. Unfortunately the manner in which he executes those intentions is of a bygone era that fails to promote team/consensus building. Shortly after his arrival the already shaky moral completely collapsed taking the trust and initiative of the staff as well. I know CDR Hill possessed the capacities, in their individual state, to command a submarine, but lacked the binding agent to bring them all together. In the two years I served with CDR Hill much was reinforced in the principles of leadership: praise in public, punish in private, loyalty up the chain of command is equally important to loyalty down the chain of command and the secret to leading a crew is the individual sailor-because sometime we are all that sailor. The tragedy here is not one man’s career but the crew that lost a Captain and the others churned in the wake.