01-17-2013, 04:01 AM
Most of the CO's I had were only in that duty position because of EO, and disproportionately so. Every one of them that fell under that template was painfully incompetent, and many were Battalion and Brigade Commanders who I would be nervous around if they tried to put a fork into operation, let alone a confiscatory back-door neo-Stalinist Obamacare scheme.
They started developing a risk assessment matrix to determine whether or not soldiers would get their earned leave, including marking them down on a point system if they:
were a smoker
had a speeding ticket in the past year
negative counseling statements
etc.
It was one of the stupidest ideas I ever saw, and totally postured towards risk-aversive officers who were focused on keeping their OER's as clean as possible, while finding a system from which to delegate blame post-incident in a corporate, zero-defect tolerance organizational structure.
This will fly over like a fart in Church, and our service members already have enough stress on them as it is, to now have to worry about their supervisors acting as Stazi.
Anyone who thinks this is cool needs to ask: Is it ok for my boss to pry into my life as to my ownership of firearms? Why are we even having this jump-the-gun-grab conversation when we don't even know what happened at Sandy Hook yet? Why are we so focused on snatching guns from people, versus protecting children and fixing gun-spree zones?
They started developing a risk assessment matrix to determine whether or not soldiers would get their earned leave, including marking them down on a point system if they:
were a smoker
had a speeding ticket in the past year
negative counseling statements
etc.
It was one of the stupidest ideas I ever saw, and totally postured towards risk-aversive officers who were focused on keeping their OER's as clean as possible, while finding a system from which to delegate blame post-incident in a corporate, zero-defect tolerance organizational structure.
This will fly over like a fart in Church, and our service members already have enough stress on them as it is, to now have to worry about their supervisors acting as Stazi.
Anyone who thinks this is cool needs to ask: Is it ok for my boss to pry into my life as to my ownership of firearms? Why are we even having this jump-the-gun-grab conversation when we don't even know what happened at Sandy Hook yet? Why are we so focused on snatching guns from people, versus protecting children and fixing gun-spree zones?