So, someone finally saw through the bullshit that troops are getting the medical care they need. What took so long - was saying troops don't get proper medical treatment considered unloyal? Would doubting troop medical care "embolden" our enemies? For fuck's sake it doesn't take a rocket scientist to walk into a building and smell the foul odor of building decay.
I am appalled that military leadership has covered-up the administration's neglect of real issues that troops face before, during, and after war. Perhaps too many "yes" people get promoted through the ranks. Maybe there are too many "agreeable" subordinates in the military who don't ask the right questions. I always appreciated when an enlisted troop had a good creative suggestions, shit, some of them worked out just great. But I guess it stopped with me - but I never got sick of telling the boss "I told you so," when his bone-headed ideas wouldn't pan out the way he wanted them.
Experience-based respect (really the only respect) in the military is often equated to time in service - those with more time get more respect. Some guys have 2 or 3 years of experience, get the hang of things and are great leaders - they have character, look out for their subordinates, and handle tough problems. Unfortunately there are also guys who have 1 year of experience 10-15 times - they're dead weight, they get promoted because promotion is time-based, not performance-based as it should be. These guys get in the way and say things like "yeah, everything's just fine down here," all the while forgetting that they serve a profession and are accountable to troops above and BELOW as well. But the leaders above offer promotions and the troops below fall by the wayside. Hypocritical careerist pricks end up at the top. But any college freshman sociology class teaches that in the section on bureaucracy. It's just the way things work.
But turning a blind eye to negligence of troop medical care is plain abhorrent.
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Can't agree more. A few soldiers and I were talking today about the developements at Walter Reed. The one question that came to our minds was, "What about the Sergeant Major/Command Sergeant Major?" The NCO Creed spells out (at an eighth grade level) what our "two basic responsibilities" are. The idea that senior NCOs would and have allowed the poor treatment of wounded soldiers is absolutely horrendous.
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