[Travis McGee]

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Another sad but basically true commentary by Hackworth. Even in the early 1980's I saw some of these traits starting to pop up. When we had guard mount, the NCO's were not trusted to conduct it, the staff duty officer did it. The reason - the depot commander did not trust the sergeants, the battalion commander did not trust the depot commanders and the brigade commander did not trust the battalion commanders. The guards were not issued ammunition until after the guard mount was conducted and they were going to their posts.