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Originally Posted by LT. Ox
I admit we have different history, that being said, Bull!
I was and o-3 and all I had to do to get the 4 was go (getting paid all the time) and finish my degree, was that going to make me a political aspirant?
I remember some fours and fives that went on to lead the US in the field, names like Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
I know a lot of enlisted and NCO personnel here and it is fun to knock the brass but I take exception to this line as it is a personnel attack against a number of men and women that cannot defend themselves.
Read the Wall and look at the name and find the ranks of all those there.
I’m sorry but I am a bit upset.
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I am sorry that you are upset, but that does not change my experience. Are there some good ones out there, yes. But I do not think they stay in, I did not say all I said "I would say that most all officers at or above the rank of O-3 Captain are politicians first". Key word was most. It was not a personnel attack as I did name any specific person, as I do not know who made most of the decisions. However if I felt like it, I could see your reply being an attack. Saying I am doing this for fun, is it fun to see a organization go down the dumps , no. Is it fun to see a organization loose its focus, no. I joined to make things better, to defend my country not to be used for political experiments. I was forced to be my units EEO rep, and at the course for it they covered lots of different "political experiments" and ways that they were changing things to make things fit how they wanted it to be not how it really was. It does not change the fact that for us outside the wire it was bad calls. We did not get a say (not that we should) but at the same time they did not listen to what the boots on the ground were saying. The bean counters are running the shop. Now, even in 2003 the senior leadership is/was very different than in 1991 I do not think that Powell or "Stormin" Norman would make it to were there were today, but that is is a opinion only as we will never know. It is not only officer who this is the case, but in the touchy feely military of today where units spend more time in EEO, Sexual harassment, and such than they do combat training what can you expect. In between my deployment in 2003-4 and 2008-9 I never saw my weapon, we did no firearms training. Now one year of that was when I reclassed to EOD (2005). That is very different than when I joined and we were in the field every month. Over my time in I saw them move away from training for war to more of the touchy feely stuff.