We all have had the one unit you considered the worst unit. How did you deal with said unit and how did you try to improve it?

CSM Oldsen, that's a new one for me. I've never heard that one. I've always heard, "The unit is what you make of it."

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Sometimes the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Even if you think the unit you are currently serving in is jacked up, when you PCS to another unit you will have moments when you say "we didn't do that stupid shit in my last unit" or words to that effect lol.

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Very true. I was ready to leave my last unit (Considering I was there for 3 years). But, once I arrived at my current unit, I quickly realized the grass wasnt greener, it was dead over here.

Any situation can be good or bad depending on the people you're with and how you approach it...shrug off the BS, embrace the good stuff, and prepare for another good story to tell over a pint when you get out :)

I can definitely agree with that LTC (Join to see). In my previous unit I noticed how things got a whole lot better when the command changed over. Morale was up and soldiers were more active in the unit than ever before.

That's very fortunate sir. This is my third active duty unit, and by far the worst. Lots wrong with it, but yet again I am in Korea.

SSG(P) (Join to see), don't think that I didn't have some seriously unmotivational experiences -- Camp Hovey was my first permanent duty station and I left there swearing I would never, ever reenlist. A little over a year later, with corporal stripes on my sleeves, I reenlisted as I graduated from BNCOC (as the honor grad for the 11C section).

There were lots of other ups and downs, even chevrons coming off and going back on, but I've also seen genuinely bad units and other units which were suffering primarily from low morale because they had nothing to do (think of an ammo supply unit in peacetime, with forklift operators spending their days counting expended brass casings from the firing ranges). So, looking back, I can see that even the craziness had meaning, and I feel I'm a better man for having lived it all.

With any luck, you'll enjoy a similar view when you look back with a few years' perspective.

1LT William Clardy, I can see your point. One of my first great leader always told me, "you can learn from any leader. Good ones, bad ones, and the ones that dont know the difference between up and down. Learn from the good ones on how to be like them or better. Learn from the bad ones so you dont make their mistakes, and learn from the worst ones so you dont ever become them."

With this in mind I can see how this tour can make me a better NCO and a better leader.