http://www.politico.com/story/2015/...gambling-inspector-general-report-117696.html
As I read through the four pages of opinions and opinions about the opinions about the Veterinarian's completion of her ruck march I completely agreed with all the sentiments regarding the importance of leading by example. The effects of poor leadership certainly trickle down through the ranks. However, by the end of page one I started thinking, "this is a veterinarian! There are O-6s and above, in significant command positions whoring around Moscow, using counterfeit poker chips at casinos, selling Navy warship docking schedules to fuel brokers and all that happens is they get is reshuffled, loss of rank or at worse early termination and no loss of benefits? And this Captain's ruck march becomes a Harvard B-School case study in leadership." I'm surprised Jack and Suzy Welch haven't commented. They know all about adultery.
Only a leadership so inbred and full of itself would consider the shame of loss of rank or early retirement as fit punishment for what anyone else would call criminal behavior.
So this AM, I turn on my computer and scan the usual news pages and I see the story linked above. It made me think of the time a plumber told me, while discussing moving a toilet, "$h!+ always flows downhill."
My DS, who commissions in 2 weeks, is branched Signal, but I can honestly say that if he had branched into Combat Arms, my single biggest fear would still be his witnessing firsthand the kind of behavior described in the this and so many other stories. I don't think I can offer any him any guidance other than to do the right thing, keep a contemporaneous log and be prepared to suffer the consequences
As I read through the four pages of opinions and opinions about the opinions about the Veterinarian's completion of her ruck march I completely agreed with all the sentiments regarding the importance of leading by example. The effects of poor leadership certainly trickle down through the ranks. However, by the end of page one I started thinking, "this is a veterinarian! There are O-6s and above, in significant command positions whoring around Moscow, using counterfeit poker chips at casinos, selling Navy warship docking schedules to fuel brokers and all that happens is they get is reshuffled, loss of rank or at worse early termination and no loss of benefits? And this Captain's ruck march becomes a Harvard B-School case study in leadership." I'm surprised Jack and Suzy Welch haven't commented. They know all about adultery.
Only a leadership so inbred and full of itself would consider the shame of loss of rank or early retirement as fit punishment for what anyone else would call criminal behavior.
So this AM, I turn on my computer and scan the usual news pages and I see the story linked above. It made me think of the time a plumber told me, while discussing moving a toilet, "$h!+ always flows downhill."
My DS, who commissions in 2 weeks, is branched Signal, but I can honestly say that if he had branched into Combat Arms, my single biggest fear would still be his witnessing firsthand the kind of behavior described in the this and so many other stories. I don't think I can offer any him any guidance other than to do the right thing, keep a contemporaneous log and be prepared to suffer the consequences