Should this Marine Commander have been fired?

As my former Co. GySgt. counseled me on more than one occasion, "Great Initiative, Bad Judgement"

I think that the Lt. Col. was attempting to make the changes she wanted too fast. Those kind of changes have to be taken in moderation as can be seen by the over-reaction of the command. I think if she had scaled back a touch and worked on improvements at a more scaled rate she would still have seen success and may be still in a position to influence continued success.

Ditto.

From what I understood from the article, the Lt. Col. might have made some poor choices but I saw no reason for such a drastic recourse such as firing. Having said that, her immediate CO had a much better prospective than this article provides. Even if there were personality clashes between the two officers, I find it really hard to believe that they would have been able to achieve their ranks or status without being able to overcome such clashes. Were there no counseling letters from the Col. to the Lt. Col. about these matters? Or was she thrown under the bus? I would be very surprised if that was the case. Then again, I am surprised that the Battalion Commander would berate a recruit...I always thought that was why she had Company Commanders and Drill Instructors. Perhaps one of those poor choices...

Take your pick...

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/2015/07/07/kate-germano-fired-marine-corps-female-recruit-unit-commander/29763371/

My drill instructors told us basically the same thing. They were reinforcing that we should never use our gender as an excuse to not be just as good as the men. Of course, refusing to admit I was not as strong as the men in my shop caused me to permanently screw up my shoulder, but that was my fault for being stupid. (Lifting boxes full of gear that were supposed to be two-man lifts, but I was alone and needed something from the very bottom box, oops)

What do people expect with the snow flake generation? I wonder what would happen these days if my DIs (Sgt. Lumpkin and Wade) were to throw Pvt1 Lane out the window (bunk included) for missing revelry for a week. 2nd story window at Ft. Ord 1969

I don't know about you all out there in Marine Corps World (current or Alumni), but anytime someone tried to take a dump on me in the Marine Corps or tried to tell me I could not hack it or I was soft, whatever the "challenge", that son-of-a-bitch that is always inside of me, would come out and it would piss me off to the point that i would respond to the challenge and it made me a better Marine. I am sure that someone must have challenged Lt. Col. Germano that women would never shoot as good as male Marines or live up to male Marine Corps standards, and that got her back up. The best scene in the movie GI Jane was when the Navy Seal Instructor tells the BUDS female candidate that nobody cares that she is a woman or whether she she passes or fails out of BUDS. Nobody cares if you Drop On Request ("DOR"). My staff platoon commander (an Arty Captain, Capt. Gallina) told me at OCS Junior Class in 1983 (PLC Candidates go for either two summer sessions of six weeks each in Quantico, VA Officer candidate School, or one 10 week Officer Candidate Class) "that he was going to make it his personal mission to get me to DOR." That made me pissed off and want to graduate even more than ever. I never quit on anything or dropped out of anything. I looked back at that and I think know that he saw I needed a little bit more motivation. i think like Col. Neeler (soon to be Commandant Neeler) in the above story, he wanted to see if I would take the challenge or shrink from it. This little story encapsulates everything the Marine Corps is about. Do you shrink from the challenge or take the challenge and become someone who will outwork, out hustle, and out maneuver the other guy? That is what the Marine Corps is always looking for. The guy or gal with a chip on her shoulder who will never quit and is always ready to meet a challenge.

Thanks Jeff. I think that little story about Col. Neeler and the Infantry Captain running his company, and not running his company up that hill (for whatever reason) so clearly says in one little anecdote what the Marine Corps is all about. Col. Neeler could have easily have called him a pussy or _____, anything to challenge him to push himself and his Marines. You KNOW that Captain's butt was chaffed good by that stinging remark, "You don’t have the hair on your ass." Fighting words to ANY Marine officer or enlisted. Plus he said this in a whisper so only the Captain would hear (never wanting to embarrass an Officer in front of his men). Col. Neeler knew exactly how any Marine Infantry Officer worth his salt would respond. Especially a young company commander. After that challenge, that company commander would have run up any hill even if cost him his entire company and he was the only Marine standing at the top. That is who we are. Or who we are supposed to be. That is who we are called to be, by the memory of great Marines that went in front of us like 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman, Jr. MOH Posthumously, and those other 35 Marines just found, still on Tarawa, still where they fought and died for the US and the Honor & legacy of the Marine Corps. During Gulf War I/Desert Shield in December 1990, while at TBS, we had some Chosin Reservoir Marines come and talk to us new lieutenants to help prepare us for war. They told us that what they were more scared than dying, of letting down the history of the Marine Corps and becoming the first Marine Division to be taking prisoner by an enemy force. So they fought their way out of the encirclement smashing some eight elite Chinese divisions in the process of making it to the coast and evacuation. Fourteen Marines, two Soldiers and one Navy pilot received the Medal of Honor. For my money, what those Marines & Soldiers at the Frozen Chosin did under horrific conditions, was and is the equivalent of ANY Marine Corps victory in combat, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Belleau Wood, Okinawa, Falluja. And that is not taking anything away from any other Marine who survived or died in those other unbelievable Marine Corps victories. Those Chosin Marines were there to send us the message that instead of being afraid of dying, we should be afraid of letting down the memory of the Marines that went before us. Damn!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chosin_Reservoir

She simply wasn't PC enough to pass muster for the New Kinder Gentler Marine Corps.