Once again, weak leadership produces predictable consequences (and it's not like this particular cause and effect chain hasn't been reverified multiple times over recent military history - as well as stretching back to when Moses went to Basic).
Commander Salamander has more - including an update where the "No Drinking In Your Off-Post Quarters" got rescinded... for Guam, but not Japan and elsewhwere.
The Leadership Death Spiral will continue, and the floggings will cease when morale improves.
I recall from ancient leadership texts dating back to when I was a cadet in another century... Mass Punishment = Bad Leadership, giving orders you know will be disobeyed, Bad Leadership, and actually undermines discipline, because it removes justice and replaces it with arbitrary fiat.
This policy is the knee-jerk response of a command team that is out of ideas.
There's more than one kind of shoal, and more than one way to run a command onto the rocks.
Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2012/12/stupid_flag_off.html
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Dec 03 2012, 05:24 AM
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