Posted on Dec 20, 2013

What was the worst unit you were ever in or saw and why?

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This is the flip side, what was the worst unit you were ever in or saw and why? Let me revamp this slightly since it was taken the wrong way, why did some units become the worst unit you were in (ie leadership and styles, training, work ethics, personnel, etc.)?

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SFC Lamont Womack

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I can honestly say I have never been in a bad unit. Every unit I began to hate was due to the leadership of the unit. I've had more than one unit I can say was my best unit and worst unit due to the change of leadership. <div><br></div><div>I do find it amazing that one Commander/1SG can make the unit great and another Commander/1SG can completely destroy the unit. </div>

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CPT Jeff Robinette

6 y

If your unit's leadership is in the toilet. The units performance will be in the toilet.

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SPC David Schuler

6 y

When I joined my company it was returning from the field with 23 cases of cold in weather injury. The CO's orientation briefing was a litany of offenses that would result in our being sent to Correctional Confinement and he was actually proud of the number of soldiers he had sent there. The butter bar pretending to be our platoon leader said his nickname was "The Prosecutor" (it was actually Micky Mouse). Drug use was high and the AWOL rate was atrocious.The next CO turned all that around in less than six months. He knew that we were already watching out for each other. He just got behind it and made it his policy that we took care of our own. He channeled our anger toward achievement. I've already gone on too long but I could write pages more. I've never seen a better example of what leadership can do.

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1SG R C

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MAJ Rene De La Rosa - sometimes the wait was unbearable so I created my own opportunities to move, usually up.

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MAJ Carl Owen

6 y

Hear, Hear! The command team makes the unit. I served in one battalion where the commander was as nutty as a pecan tree. But the XO and Sergeant Major where the best I ever worked for. It wasn't the "best" unit I served in but despite the disadvantage of a poor commander this was offset by herculean efforts of the staff. It functioned and could do it's mission. BTW the CO was relieved for cause and it got better.

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Posted 8 y ago

Like most others it is not the unit, but the leadership.

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SPC (Join to see)

8 y

I agree, espirit de corps is like a book your trying to sell, the book could be amazing but if the reviews are bad no one will buy it, and that's how motivation dies

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SGT Jerome Mickelson

8 y

Yes sir agreed, had a stateside unit keep burning it's NCOs for everything, until they involved the IG heads rolled then leadership overseas duty was early 80s very good, stateside sucked

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