Hey Stoat;
I’m not hitting on you but yours was just the last posted.
Folks - lets remember a few thinks.
This is an MSM news story, do we have all the facts? He’s a volunteer and says he resigned after “immense pressure” from management.
Small groups of people who work in jobs that require risks do it for the job and their fellow team/unit mates - not management. Management is not sitting in the office at night, his mates are.
Some people I know who got similar reprimands framed it and hung it on their office wall.
I’m just wondering if we got the “rest of the story” and if not - what is it?
Although I agree that the published accounts lack a great deal of specificity, what was conveyed to me from the way the accounts are written was that he was subjected to considerably more than merely being handed a reprimand and that was the end of it.
He was a 13 year veteran who loved the job. He has a wife and three children. He was a former miner. He doesn't seem like the type who would throw a hysterical fit and quit merely because he was handed a piece of paper.
It seems to me that he was subjected to an intentional, ongoing pattern of pressure and was essentially forced out, in order to make an example to the rest of the Coast Guard. But, that's just my reading of it and everyone is entitled to their own view.