11-16-2011, 04:21 PM
You can't make this stuff up...
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We had this embarrassingly worthless BC in 3-325 AIR in the 82nd. He had ordered all the Company CDR's to doctor their Platoon and Company ARTEP Eval boards to say "Trained", when they hadn't, before a Command inspection. Word of this trickled up to General Vines, the Division Commander, who then made sure that our BC's OER reflected thus:
"Places personal career goals above the welfare of his subordinates." He lost his Infantry Branch Assignment, and was sent to Quartermaster, and promptly filed an EO complaint. No matter the occasion, he was always babbling about your "3 feet of space".
I was on a zero range for the SAWs once, when he stopped by to check-up on training. We walked down to the targets, and I noticed a 7.62x39 case on the ground. I picked it up, held it at eye-height between us, and he stared at me like a deer in the headlights. I was expecting him to immediately recognize it, since he had time in Ranger Regiment...nope...it was like a pig staring at a thermometer.
"That's a 7.62x39, sir. Weapons like the AKM, SKS, and RPD eat it..." I said, sounding like a smart a**...unintentionally, and somewhat surprised. (Here's a guy who has been in combat arms units in the Army for the past 18-20 years, and he doesn't recognize the most common foreign weapons cartridge in the world? I had done several foreign wpns ranges up to that time, and I had only been in for 7 years then.
He changed the subject and tried to catch me off guard with some ridiculous question. After the loss of Infantry branch and him being reassigned to some support unit in 18th Airborne Corps, he came back to the battalion area one day. I saw the QM Branch insignia with its prominent star on his left BDU collar, and exclaimed,
"General! Golleee, you made rank FAST sir!!!!" Saluting him smartly, as the redness shone through his melanin-toned skin. He maintained a half-right face so that I couldn't see his silver leaf (which I knew was still there of course).
Anyway, I later learned that his EO complaint helped him get back into Infantry Branch somehow, so he could command troops again...probably made full Bird and deployed with some unfortunate unit as well.
[video=google;2029457706320871566]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2029457706320871566[/video]
We had this embarrassingly worthless BC in 3-325 AIR in the 82nd. He had ordered all the Company CDR's to doctor their Platoon and Company ARTEP Eval boards to say "Trained", when they hadn't, before a Command inspection. Word of this trickled up to General Vines, the Division Commander, who then made sure that our BC's OER reflected thus:
"Places personal career goals above the welfare of his subordinates." He lost his Infantry Branch Assignment, and was sent to Quartermaster, and promptly filed an EO complaint. No matter the occasion, he was always babbling about your "3 feet of space".
I was on a zero range for the SAWs once, when he stopped by to check-up on training. We walked down to the targets, and I noticed a 7.62x39 case on the ground. I picked it up, held it at eye-height between us, and he stared at me like a deer in the headlights. I was expecting him to immediately recognize it, since he had time in Ranger Regiment...nope...it was like a pig staring at a thermometer.
"That's a 7.62x39, sir. Weapons like the AKM, SKS, and RPD eat it..." I said, sounding like a smart a**...unintentionally, and somewhat surprised. (Here's a guy who has been in combat arms units in the Army for the past 18-20 years, and he doesn't recognize the most common foreign weapons cartridge in the world? I had done several foreign wpns ranges up to that time, and I had only been in for 7 years then.
He changed the subject and tried to catch me off guard with some ridiculous question. After the loss of Infantry branch and him being reassigned to some support unit in 18th Airborne Corps, he came back to the battalion area one day. I saw the QM Branch insignia with its prominent star on his left BDU collar, and exclaimed,
"General! Golleee, you made rank FAST sir!!!!" Saluting him smartly, as the redness shone through his melanin-toned skin. He maintained a half-right face so that I couldn't see his silver leaf (which I knew was still there of course).
Anyway, I later learned that his EO complaint helped him get back into Infantry Branch somehow, so he could command troops again...probably made full Bird and deployed with some unfortunate unit as well.