Don’t let them off the hook. If Trump had lost they would have rubbed salt in the wound as hard as they could. Justice needs to be served.
in the rare event a battery failed, the chain of command to include the Group Commander was relieved on the spot. That pucker factor, the fear of being fired is missing in our government today.
By the time I led my last exercise, had plenty of experience, and success as a Platoon Leader to be fearless. Failure just didn’t play into my job, but I felt the pucker factor at those outbriefings.
it was powerful. During a temporary assignment six months later, I had an 18 year old MP who hadn’t been paid for six weeks. After hearing the runaround my NCOs had heard, I was angry. So I had my clerk call the Group Commnder, who wasn’t pleased to be talking to me…lol.
After explaining the reason for my call, I added “BTW Colonel, it was a pleasure meeting you at the outbriefing for the B 5/6 NSI. I was the augmentation leader for that NSI.”
At that moment, the tenor changed: “LT, how are you doing?” He put a Jeep on the road that afternoon, OUR soldier received his paychecks the following day.