Posted on 10/24/2014 4:39:14 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Too bad we are not really at war. Something might happen to “her”.
Damn bull dyke.
Revolting.
First ships CO I could set my watch by. 2 hours after leaving port and 2 hours before coming in he’d barge into the ships CIC and the first person he saw would get a blast. CPO and I figured it out quickly and one of the two of us would always be in position to be the first he saw every time. Later he had a DUI on base taken off the books by the squadron CO. We figured it was knowing he couldn’t get alcohol for a while or was about to get it.
Guy knew a fair amount of stuff - mustang that eventually made full bird - but man he blew up at some nonsense stuff. If you got on his list - pshew. To this day I still have a flashback or two of the worst rants. I was a bit of a screen at USNA my plebe year, but those guys weren’t out to court-martial me - this guy threatened folks on more than one occasion.
This is one of the reasons, along with all the increasing PC crap that led me not to make it a career. Loved the service and my sailors - couldn’t take the BS tyrants and as an O I knew the political was only going to get worse.
“I was astonished that the Army would let an incompetent man such as that rise to his level of authority where he could really waste lots of money.”
You should try watching $10 billion space programs go bad. Dozens of Colonels and Generals are involved in the affair and every last one of them is an incompetent idiot, and every last one of them is looking to spend money on contractors they later will want an executive job with once they retire.
I can’t even begin to recall the number of such programs I’ve witnessed spending taxpayer money. It is disgusting.
The entire structure of military program management has changed over the past 30 years with no one at the military command level ever being held accountable. Senior military officers are nothing but vendor managers anymore. They have no personal stake in the programs.
What’s that saying about how respect must be earned and cannot be given?
Sounds like Honore.
I used to joke that you couldn't expect much from generals, since they made them all out of colonels. However, when I made Colonel, I didn't think it was funny any longer.
Maybe I was lucky. In 22 years in service, I never had a really bad commanding officer. However, I retired thirty years ago. Evidently things have changed since then.
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