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Itchy_Grundle posted:Same here. Oh hey 
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I just flat out don't understand leadership in the Army, particularly LTC's and COL's. Day 3 of our 10 day recovery is a BN competition that will involve over 75% of the BN. The following week days 6-9 of recovery is a another multi-day BN level event that will involve most of the BN. Then the following week we go into the field for 2 weeks for a BDE training event. Which is then followed by more non-stop heavy training until Christmas block leave. Senior leaders in the Army are just objectively bad. I'm sure there's going to be some massive FLIPLs during the changes of command following the BDE event which I'm sure the BN and BDE commanders will accept no amount of responsibility for. My BN's MAJ's will gripe about this bullshit too but whatever they have to say to their rater and senior rater behind closed doors is either 1) ineffectual or 2) not happening. I'm sure when they become BN commanders they will be just as awful, command seems to bring out the worst in people. My BN commander has had us read various books about leadership and management in civilian organizations though I don't understand the purpose. The result is pretty much just "Yep, that sounds great! lets not implement any of it though".
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Mustang posted:
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Mustang posted:I just flat out don't understand leadership in the Army, particularly LTC's and COL's. What's funny is that you have actually not introduced anything new to your thesis of 'gently caress the army' and are just continually giving a random lurker who wanders in ammo to doxx you while you are actively at a post.
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He's finally becoming a jaded junior officer, let him vent. He's about to grow his hair out and become a captain of zero fucks.Mustang posted:I just flat out don't understand leadership in the Army, particularly LTC's and COL's. It's all a dick waving contest. O-5s just want to prove they can be BDE commanders and so on. O-4's grin and bear it because they have no other choice but to go all in. I'm actually curious how the TSP is going to affect careerism in the Army since you won't have officers who are purely motivated by the pension anymore.
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Mustang posted:I just flat out don't understand leadership in the Army, particularly LTC's and COL's. sustainable readiness model. it will seriously be the reason why retention is poo poo. we looked at our LRTC when we get back from the deployment I'm currently on and there's no whitespace because all of our crews will be out of tolerance and we need to be ready for NTC. it's really loving bad.
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Got told yesterday that I have to get to mandatory training to train the trainers later this week on this morning at 0800, when All I had to do was pick up barracks keys at 1000. I got up two hours early, dropped my friend off at work an hour earlier than I was going to(she came over because it was a holiday and I promised her a ride to work Tuesday morning and we had pie and dinner last night) so 7AM instead of 8am when her work starts... Only to find out that the training isn’t on the schedule by any agency on this base and that the date I was given is wrong and why did I get a sitrep about this on a holiday weekend? But that isn’t so bad now I’m just here 2 hours early. Oh well.
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Thought you guys would enjoy this one:quote:Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson, (...) via https://www.military.com/dodbuzz/2018/10/09/pentagons-lethality-task-force-needs-more-funding-mattis-aide.html
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Oct 10, 2018 00:26
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hahahahahahahahahaha
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Cool. Love to do snap exercises Russia-style. Except even when we do that, we still have to like... load up on ships and planes and rail to get to theater instead of just driving to the front. So 1,000% more pain CONUS buys like 0.5% more surprise and speed OCONUS?
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Oct 10, 2018 00:28
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Lol so glad I'm not at drum anymore. That place somehow always manages to top itself.
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That whole training plan is “Figure it out, S4” as gently caress.
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Oct 10, 2018 00:47
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Already did that, first day back from block leave last year we were told to start moving our poo poo by sea to NTC. Yes, we took our poo poo by sea to a place in the middle of a desert.
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RIP PRC/RU/DPRK when we deploy via the USPS unofficial motto. “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
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loving lol
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Mustang posted:Already did that, first day back from block leave last year we were told to start moving our poo poo by sea to NTC. We've been doing that for almost two decades I don't know what you're complaining about
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I can't tell reality from a Duffle Blog article anymore.
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bird food bathtub posted:I can't tell reality from a Duffle Blog article anymore. Usually there's an element of humor to a Duffel Blog article.
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Can't wait until someone tries that with 1/25 in Fairbanks, and they get to NTC three weeks ahead of their gear.
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pmchem posted:Thought you guys would enjoy this one: Is there enough shipping capacity sitting idle to make that work?
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When the DOD comes calling, shipping capacity make itself available. It’s going to cost $FuckYou but it’s gonna be available.
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SimonCat posted:Is there enough shipping capacity sitting idle to make that work? Shipping capacity is way, way higher than port embark/disembark capacity and material handling equipment/crew capacity. You’ll swamp an airfield or a port well before you run out of ships to put poo poo on.
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For us, we moved thousands of pieces of rolling stock and containers by ship and then had it all linehauled from Port of San Diego to NTC. Can't even imagine how much that must have cost.
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A lot, but also less than virtually any other mode of transport from home station to NTC? Typically $20-25 million per BCT rotation to, during, and back from NTC it seems. Expensive, but pretty cheap compared to a lot of other military poo poo. mlmp08 fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Oct 11, 2018 |
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Oct 11, 2018 00:03
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Yeah, but think of how many trips you could make to Yakima for that kind of money! Here begins the countdown 'til some poor bastards have to road march from JBLM all the way down to NTC. "But Naked Bear, that's beyond loving stupid!" you say. To that, I say, "Army."
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Probably more expensive to road march to NTC due to cost of break downs and parts, plus recovery assets and fuel.
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Train like you fight, hua?
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Mustang posted:Probably more expensive to road march to NTC due to cost of break downs and parts, plus recovery assets and fuel. Don't worry, Tricare doesn't come out of the unit's budget, so just THINK of the savings!
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“Hey S4 can you get us ammunition for tomorrow?” “☹️ I’ll ask around but we won’t have ammunition till we were supposed to fire next Saturday.”- me, thinking of who I need to call to arrange this outlandish exchange and how impossible this will be
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Talk to the BDE ammunition NCO, there's probably another unit with excess to spare.
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You guys ever have to run a range as an Un-Funded Requirement (UFR)? As a new platoon leader I had to run a 9mm range that was on the training schedule but was then told there wasn't 9mm ammo available. The S-3 shop said that while we were required to conduct the range, it wasn't funded and we couldn't draw anything from the ASP--thus "Un-Funded Requirement." I was advised to call around post myself and arrange a trade with another unit. Good thing the MPs had a shitload of 9mm and we had a shitload of 50 cal. Bear in mind this was in the woodland BDU late 1990's. It was my first exposure to the concept of "tough poo poo, figure it out."
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We drove to Pinon Canyon from Fort Carson. One of the vehicles broke down in our convoy literally ba mile outside the gate so we had to slow the convoy down to 25 miles per hour. It took 8 hours to get there.
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Breakdown plan is always “continue” and wreckers are always last in line for that purpose.
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We had a Stryker break down in the maybe mile and a half between the motor pool on north Fort Lewis and the main gate onto base. One lucky guy got to stay back at base with it while the mechanics figured out what was wrong. Turns out when you confuse engine coolant for engine oil, the engine gets very unhappy.
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Ashmole posted:We drove to Pinon Canyon from Fort Carson. One of the vehicles broke down in our convoy literally ba mile outside the gate so we had to slow the convoy down to 25 miles per hour. It took 8 hours to get there. when was that? I did FTX at pinion canyon in 2003. incredible views and nightly thunderstorms.
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A Bad Poster posted:We had a Stryker break down in the maybe mile and a half between the motor pool on north Fort Lewis and the main gate onto base. One lucky guy got to stay back at base with it while the mechanics figured out what was wrong. Turns out when you confuse engine coolant for engine oil, the engine gets very unhappy. It must have been like smelly chocolate pudding inside the block 
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 it's been a few years since i've shown this pic the recovery mission took 2 days because korea
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the postures of everyone in that photo screams "well, poo poo."
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Not enough people smoking cigarettes in that picture for it to be infantry
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