We all have had the one unit you considered the worst unit. How did you deal with said unit and how did you try to improve it?

2015-03-13T07:09:01-04:00

You can be as specific as you want with details about your worst experience with your unit.

Response by CSM Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 13 at 2015 7:20 AM

2015-03-13T07:20:07-04:00

Like the old saying goes, the best unit is the one you are going to and the one you just left.

Response by MAJ Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 13 at 2015 7:47 AM

2015-03-13T07:47:10-04:00

? ID only speaking to what I saw.
Sorry but when you're deployed and your relief shows up and they have combat arms officer that weigh over 300 lbs that is scary. Next when they use up 2 1/2 months of bottle water in 1 week. A company commander calls me to tell me how he has f#cked himself because he has only 50% of is Soldiers and 30 support personnel who don't know how to shoot. There first act after taking over the battlespace is to seed terrain back to the enemy. Whines because all the buildings don't have AC and heat. Pisses of the ally who is the battlespace owner.
Gets into three wrecks within the first three day. Two NCOs pick a fight with a PL that lost more Soldiers than anyone and call him and his PSG fobbits. Senior leaders late arriving from Kuwait because of a patching ceremony. Majority of the people miss a flight 3 times because they are hanging out at the PX in BAF.

I will not say the division but good God now I know why 1st??? ??? did a happy dance when they left Ft ???? to go to Ft ??????.

Response by GySgt Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 13 at 2015 7:47 AM

2015-03-13T07:47:11-04:00

That's highly dependent on the short falls of the unit. Is it bad because short falls in the command, your peers, or your troops?

Response by 1LT William Clardy made Mar 13 at 2015 9:55 AM

2015-03-13T09:55:43-04:00

Honestly, I don't think I've ever had a bad unit.

When I was on active duty, I was fortunate enough that all my assignments put me in units with enough of a real-world mission to give us that essential clarity of purpose which drives morale and performance. In addition, I also lucked out in having enough good leaders around that the poor and mediocre leaders were mooted.

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 13 at 2015 2:04 PM

2015-03-13T14:04:07-04:00

"There are no bad units, only bad leaders," said most of my mentors. After 24 years, this has generally held true in my experiences.

Response by CPL Joshua Wood made Mar 13 at 2015 2:24 PM

2015-03-13T14:24:15-04:00

Loved my unit of 2-321FA 4th Brigade 82nd but we had a LTC who was written about in a book called Level Zero Hero's
His Name: Pro 6 ( don't want to do him dirty ) at the time we wanted to push him off a mountain, it got so bad that we his PSD team had to be relocated during OEF 10 to a State department compound that he didn't have access to. He did a lot of dirty stuff and placed many life's in unnecessary danger. He was looking for that one battle that would give him his next rank.
Solution: Reenlist for another duty station to avoid the already scheduled deployment with this guy.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 13 at 2015 2:24 PM

2015-03-13T14:24:38-04:00

My "worst unit" would be the one I was at for 7 years. However I could easily also consider this my best. During my time there, leadership changed multiple times. Leadership can easily make or break a unit. During the bad times when I hated life there, I simply did my job to the best of my ability and made the best of it knowing that it wouldn't last forever. At some point either you will PCS, or leadership will change and things will be different. During the good times, I got involved with the unit as much as I could to try and make the good times last as long possible.

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 25 at 2015 4:11 PM

2015-04-25T16:11:34-04:00

I really don't like to say that a unit is the worst. But it is something that can be said about some. Still I am reluctant to say that. I have been in some questionable units. They got their mission done but it wasn't the way I would have done it. I have seen some leaders that I have questioned more than anything else. I had a PL that was pretty honestly I can say was horrible. But he was still able to contribute. That was when I first thought that maybe I could be a PL. I knew I could do better than that guy. It is working out so far.