[Darksheare]

"doing" rather than supervising.. did they forget that you lead by example?

The OpFor snipers were always looking for someone "Supervising".
And they were very good at finding them. Our LTC showed up one day during live fire during AT about four years ago. He jumped into the middle of us lowly e-4's and down and decided he was going to do what we were doing. His excuse?
"I don't want to get pegged by the OpFor as an officer."
that, and he said something about back when he was a captain, they didn't let the officers play with the equipment. Or something like that.
Made me think of, "Mommy won't let me out to play today. Not with you green guys."

Would've loved to have had you as an NCO in my old unit. We had too many supervisers and not enough doers.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks. They are times to supervise and times to get the job done, if an extra back or set of hands got it done quicker, that was good for the squad.