Posted on Jun 23, 2015
Candor, frankness and unfettered honesty on RP.
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I Know that alot of my Military Brotheren and Veterans serving as government employees do not have the courage to be totally honest with their opinions is this public social media format. Thats OK, but I do expect your to have the courage to standup and resist all of this political correctness that is destroying our military from your current position. If you can't find it from deep inside of yourself to do so, then hide your head in shame!
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I completely agree. You can have a backbone and say what you need with tact.
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I once had a Soldier. Yeah, one of those know it all, quote-the-regulation-to-you-types. Told me he was going to go downtown and find someone willing to have sex with him. I said "Good luck, be a gentleman and take some protection with you (no love without a glove)." He acknowledged, and went out. Two weeks later he is in the hospital with an infection resulting from said night out. I was called in to the commanders office and asked if I knew what he was doing and did I give him a safety brief. The commander was forced to call this incident a "Line of Duty" injury because I did not have my "Warning brief" acknowledged in writing. That is when I realized that the Army as I knew it had changed forever.
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MAJ Bryan Zeski
CSM, the notion that Commanders and CSMs are somehow responsible for the intimate private lives of their Soldiers is a terrible place for the Army to focus efforts. I get "responsibility" and taking care of Soldiers. But, Soldiers ARE adults and should be treated accordingly. I'm all for training and education - but at the end of the day, Soldiers are going to do stupid adult things and should be solely responsible for those actions. Everyone gets the "safe sex, and don't beat your girlfriend/wife" safety briefs ad nauseum - at some point, they have to be responsible for themselves - not the command.
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MAJ Chris Ballard
My last command was in a WTB, so I did a lot of line of duty investigations. From what I recall, an injury is considered Line of Duty by default so long as the soldier is active and not engaged in illegal activity or acting against orders. The burden of proof falls on the chain of command to prove that it wasn't so (such as drunk driving, or injured while committing a crime). "If you're gonna tap it, wrap it" while good advice, doesn't constitute an order. Now, if you had been professionally reprimanded for failing to adequately prevent a barely post-adolescent male from falling into bed with the first willing female who could fog a mirror, that would truly be a travesty.
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I was never a PC type, or cared for the politics involved in making Flag so there was no surprise there. That said, I just try to be respectful when I'm talking. There are times I really bite my tongue and remind myself you can't argue with an idiot.
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Capt Seid Waddell
CAPT Kevin Ball, exactly, sir.
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain
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