Do you have any stories of someone above your rank fucking up? Or being very incompetent/asshole like and getting away with it. How did that affect the rest of your team.
Doesn't have to be incompetence either, maybe they just had a really bad day and shit happened, or froze/panicked during combat.
>>30247342
>Do you have any stories of someone above your rank fucking up? Or being very incompetent/asshole like and getting away with it. How did that affect the rest of your team.
It made our office a very hostile-feeling work environment.
>>30247358
What happened?
>>30247342
unfortunately not a surpierior for the sake of this thread
not really a battle buddy, but a classmate in eglin AFB at the EOD trainign complex dropped a stick of tnt while in formation to move down field.
obviously nothing happened because tnt is more stable than that but god damn, we did some "corrective action" like it was going outta style.
my next to last Company commander put the whole company at risk to do some unnecessary required training.
>2011
>japan
>commander's training week
>have a "not convoy" of army trucks from zama to camp fuji. so we don't have to arrange for police escort. comms between trucks is private cellphones. no real planning otherwise. trucks get lost trying to get to the expressway.
>once we get at fuji we sit around all day waiting for the commander to finally show. then we have to set up two tents, concertina wire, and a satellite internet connection, in the dark, with only hmmwv lights.
>it is now 2300 and we still aren't in bunks. commander and or first sgt didn't get the quarters from the marine garrison command unit while we were setting up
>the male sgts and below are in a huge bay barracks. females and ssg and above get to stay in 2 man room barracks with private bathrooms. there are enough 2 man room barracks and the company small enough. that we all could have been in 2 man rooms.
>get up at 0500 the next day and skip breakfast in the mess hall. so we can supposedly get out of the field and start training. we end up sitting in our trucks at a closed gate till 0800. no meal till MRE lunch.
>get lost trying to find the training site. no comms between trucks. no maps.
>already down one truck from the convoy yesterday. another truck breaks.
>next day is rainy. company commander wants us to do obstacle course. even though the signs clearly state we are not to use it when it is wet. soldier swings off and tries to land on a round smooth log of the next obstacle. he slips and swings forward. impacting his skull on the ground with a great force. he has to be hauled away in an ambulance.
>soldier with purple heart after taking a mortar shockwave to the face, randomly passes out again. has to be taken away in ambulance.
>it really is raining now. still doing pointless training.
>oh shit that typhoon that has been heading towards us for a week is here.
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>>30247342
Not going into details as this was a sigact, but this is the short version
>finish week-long patrol set, head back to bn fob for refit.
>platoon gets tagged with 3 days of qrf. Nbd, we get to eat hot chow for those three days.
>second day, our local national partners call us up and say that shit is about to go down at one of the anp checkpoints in our platoons sector.
>1lt rollypolly bitches about getting pulled off qrf (and away from the chow hall)
>we go down there in our trucks, circle the wagons, get ready to dismount the whole platoon
>nope, pl only wants to take a squad to check it out.
>wut
>do you want a gun team at least?
>no, we'll be back soon, theres nothing here
>riiiight
Long story short, the ambush was initiated with a gp25 round, think russian m203. Round was a dud, but it hit our terp dead in the chest. Lucky bastard. One of our guys got a million dollar wound in the thigh, we had to walk him out. Rice paddies meant we couldnt get to him in our trucks, and medevac said fuck no to a hot lz.
It was a good day. Smoked a squad sized element.
Lt rollypolly wasn't even there when the new lt signed for the property the next week.
>>30248615
>tear down tents, satellite, etc in the dark and as the typhoon is really starting to get going.
>commander did not arrange for any secure place to keep all our sensitive comms items, trucks, and field gear. so for half the night we have to pull guard duty on the trucks, during a typhoon. finally at 0300 we get the trucks inside a maintenance hangar and the sensitive items inside the armory.
>next day the typhoon is sitting over camp fuji. stuck inside the barracks all day doing "training".
>next day. typhoon is gone. we get a lot of calls from Zama about the damage. trees down everywhere. one soldier's dog died. lots of soldiers' houses and cars are damaged. one soldier's pregnant wife was taken to the hospital.
>commander still wants us to go do training.
>dirt roads to the ranges are all majorly washed out.
>commander for some reason wants us all to drive through this unknown body of water. just for the heck of it. another truck breaks because they weren't properly trained on how to properly ford water.
>another truck breaks
>another truck nearly falls into the 4 foot by 6 foot deep gully that the typhoon carved into the dirt road to the range.
>do the range. doing react to fire drills like babies instead of adults.
>1600 and commander still wants to do the land nav course.
>first sgt, ssgs, and the SFC are all talking her out of it. we don't know the condition of the course area.
>marine range officer trucks falls into gully
>we go back to the garrison and prepare to drive back to zama
>the Battalion commander and CSM are here.
>whole company is sent hundreds of meters away.
>we peek around the corner of the building and can see the colonel chewing out the captain.
>drive back to zama. though it is difficult because we only have half the trucks we started with.
>trucks get lost on the way back. making us wait for them.
>unload and secure the gear
>finally the nightmare is over and we can go home
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>>30248729
>mandatory fun day - start it with an after action review/report
>everyone but the ass kissers say it was a shit show
>find out that were there the whole week because the commander didn't want to arrange for buses to bring us back and forth for the two events we actually needed to be there for.
>next day. taking the trucks we borrowed from another battalion back
>boy are they pissed about all the broken trucks
>I have to talk to their motor sgt, battalion maintenance warrant officer, and company commander. I throw my company commander under the bus.
>we didn't need to borrow their trucks. the marines at fuji keep a huge fleet of HMMWVs and 5 tons to loan out.but remember, the commander didn't want to task someone else to arrange for bus transport.
>>30248772
oh forgot one last thing.
Despite the huge fiasco this event was. The female mulatto company commander still PCS with in a few months, with a bronze star as a PCS award.
>>30247342
>or froze
Not my group but was in my country
>Winter exercise in, you know, a genuine winter.
>The only reason we natives are alive here is that we take winder very, very, very serious. Hollywood heroes from abroad do not.
>exercise involves taking a beach, infantry coming by boats
>Heroic officers decide the many thing to do is NOT to sail to the beach to touch ground but have the grunts jump into water and wade ashore.
>Belatedly discover water is wet
>Belatedly discovering winter is cold and when wet is a LOT colder
>Realising their career is about to proudly follow in the one way footsteps of Cpt. Scott
>Finally does the only sane thing: locate natives to surrender to.
>82nd: The Thread
Stupid shit like this is why I got out
>>30248783
same company, different time at the range.
range is over but there is ammo. so the SNCO take it all to shoot it. so they don't have to bother with the work of returning it.
I'm working as a range safety officer during this. the NCOIC of the range has a malfunction and is improperly doing remedial action.
he has the magazine in and the weapon pointed at his foot. he pulls the trigger and the gun shoots a few inches away from his foot.
I yell out cease fire and point out that his SFC just had a negligent discharge.
the other SNCOs and the ass kissing NCOs just tell me to shut up.
i know, and have seen, that if it it was a SSG or below that had done that. He would have been pulled off the range and yelled at for a few minutes.
>>30247342
>Be on outdoor patrol of Minneapolis-St.Paul International airport, holiday season 03-04
>1st platoon is clearing weapons for the night
>The Troop's senior scout, the guy recognized officially as the most experienced in the unit, goes to clear his rifle
>Puts it into the vertically oriented clearing barrel at an angle
>Charges three times
>Drops mag
>Fires round through side of barrel and thankfully into the ground
