It’s a pleasure to have a dispatch from Lt. Gen. Hertling with comments enabled. But I have literally nothing to add, other than that I *would have* had things to add or ask in many of the general’s previous pieces that I couldn’t so I hope this comment enabling wasn’t a one-time mistake here.
Mark, Your piece was enlightening in it's clarity. I'm perplexed with all the time we have had, two and a half centuries, that in all our critical thinking sessions devoted to our military establishment that we have failed to realize this destructive scenario. Where is the firewall? Where are the Special Forces for this. Before you tell me it's up to Congress, what if they are in on it? Yes, I'm an alarmist, but I'd rather be an alarmist that's wrong than be naive and be wrong. Some people say we're headed for another Civil War, it's scarier than that, we could be fighting a Civil War and a Revolutionary War at the same time. Damn, I hope I'm wrong.
trump says it costs very little to keep them there because they're not feeding them, especially the sailors! As for Kegsbreath, you go way too easy on him. He's unqualified to clean latrines let alone being the SecDef. Our Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen, along with the civilian DoD employees deserve better.
Thank you for explaining things in a way that civilians can understand. Your columns always help me understand what our troops and their families are going through. If only our CIC had an understanding of it.
Frankly, sir, I think you gave a far too charitable recount of SECDEF's speech. It was horrific, demoralizing and un-American in its own sad ways. I would love to read a follow-on piece analyzing it.
"Soldiers can absorb difficult news. They can endure hardship, separation, and danger far longer than most people imagine—as long as the mission is clear and they know all the sacrifice is worth it."
Conversely if there's no mission morale will suffer. I was at Ft Polk from 86-88 and the 5th ID had no mission that we knew of and morale was terrible. Could have been a case study in leadership failure. We supposedly had the highest DUI rate in the Army, highest drug bust rate in the Army, highest suicide rate in the Army, and the lowest re-enlistment rate in the Army. Had all of that going on in my unit. It was quite a shock going there after a year with the 2nd ID in Korea.
It’s a pleasure to have a dispatch from Lt. Gen. Hertling with comments enabled. But I have literally nothing to add, other than that I *would have* had things to add or ask in many of the general’s previous pieces that I couldn’t so I hope this comment enabling wasn’t a one-time mistake here.
Mark, Your piece was enlightening in it's clarity. I'm perplexed with all the time we have had, two and a half centuries, that in all our critical thinking sessions devoted to our military establishment that we have failed to realize this destructive scenario. Where is the firewall? Where are the Special Forces for this. Before you tell me it's up to Congress, what if they are in on it? Yes, I'm an alarmist, but I'd rather be an alarmist that's wrong than be naive and be wrong. Some people say we're headed for another Civil War, it's scarier than that, we could be fighting a Civil War and a Revolutionary War at the same time. Damn, I hope I'm wrong.
trump says it costs very little to keep them there because they're not feeding them, especially the sailors! As for Kegsbreath, you go way too easy on him. He's unqualified to clean latrines let alone being the SecDef. Our Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen, along with the civilian DoD employees deserve better.
Thank you for explaining things in a way that civilians can understand. Your columns always help me understand what our troops and their families are going through. If only our CIC had an understanding of it.
Frankly, sir, I think you gave a far too charitable recount of SECDEF's speech. It was horrific, demoralizing and un-American in its own sad ways. I would love to read a follow-on piece analyzing it.
As would I.
"Soldiers can absorb difficult news. They can endure hardship, separation, and danger far longer than most people imagine—as long as the mission is clear and they know all the sacrifice is worth it."
Conversely if there's no mission morale will suffer. I was at Ft Polk from 86-88 and the 5th ID had no mission that we knew of and morale was terrible. Could have been a case study in leadership failure. We supposedly had the highest DUI rate in the Army, highest drug bust rate in the Army, highest suicide rate in the Army, and the lowest re-enlistment rate in the Army. Had all of that going on in my unit. It was quite a shock going there after a year with the 2nd ID in Korea.