[trisham]

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

~Plato

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[Svartalfiar]

The problem with this is that some high-up brass in another state doesn’t know what each base/lower unit needs. I’ve seen this problem with my Guard unit. Some of our training is localized, some organized by Brigade or higher. And when the higher units do the organizing, we ended up with some drills where we didn’t know if we’d have enough ammo to run through all the training for everyone. Other field drills, we got to go burn ~9000 9mm because we had extra and the paperwork to turn it back in just isn’t worth it.

Some stuff, yes, is better at a higher level. But some logistics just can’t be properly handled on a large scale, where people don’t know what’s going on, have little experience with it, and have ever increasing paperwork requirements to go through.

[trebb]

No surprise here - been in uniform or working on AF bases since '74. The old days are gone. These days, a Captain flight commander has less lee-way with how he utilizes his resources than I did as an E-7. Wing commander micromanages group commander micromanages unit commander micromanages flight commander micromanages intermediate supervision. Intermediate supervision tasks folks and expects them to do their jobs and it works without us micromanaging them...what a concept.

Consolidation of power is just another step towards subjugation - I don't see any stopping it.