Posted on Dec 12, 2016
He was minutes from retirement. But first, he blasted his bosses in a company-wide email.
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Come on RP.
I know there has to have been at least one of us here that has done this.
The one I remember was in the 82nd and "this guy" was getting ready to ETS, got drunk and had access to the unit call-out roster which he used to boil out his Platoon Sergeant, his Platoon Leader, the First Sergeant, and the Company Commander. He was charged with gross insubordination, conduct unbecoming and a few other choice bits, given a Field Grade Article 15, 45 & 45 busted to E-1 and then booted out.
I know there has to have been at least one of us here that has done this.
The one I remember was in the 82nd and "this guy" was getting ready to ETS, got drunk and had access to the unit call-out roster which he used to boil out his Platoon Sergeant, his Platoon Leader, the First Sergeant, and the Company Commander. He was charged with gross insubordination, conduct unbecoming and a few other choice bits, given a Field Grade Article 15, 45 & 45 busted to E-1 and then booted out.
He was minutes from retirement. But first, he blasted his bosses in a company-wide email.
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Posted 8 y ago
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Gentlemen and Ladies,
This is the reason that I retired as an O4 instead of O6. Your mouth can and WILL get you in trouble with the BUREAUCRACY. It will not matter if you are correct, it will only matter if you KISS THE ASS.
This is the reason that I retired as an O4 instead of O6. Your mouth can and WILL get you in trouble with the BUREAUCRACY. It will not matter if you are correct, it will only matter if you KISS THE ASS.
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MAJ (Join to see)
Manual of Court Martials specifically states that Truth is no Defense concerning disrespect! Wonder what general forced that to be added in.
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Mike, you KNOW where I work, and you know how they do business...I will not be mic dropping on my way out the door when I retire in a year and a half, but let's be clear, we have almost all had days when it might not have seemed such a bad idea.
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SSG Michael Hartsfield
SFC Marcus Belt I'm not sayin' no names, but I heard that a white paper got dropped back in September/October timeframe
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What your guy did was clearly wrong, and deserved punishing, but if it cost him his retirement after 20 or more years...I'm not sure I could get behind that. Reduced rank, sure, etc. But to take it all for one dumb moment after 20 years? That can't be right.
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SSG Michael Hartsfield
Man that stuff happens. This one guy in Alaska, 19 years in, decided that he was going to smoke a joint. Little did he know that there was a battalion wide urinalysis the next day. He got popped and lost his retirement. Dumb shit happens like this more than you know about
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SN Greg Wright
Without sticking up for the 'bad' guys at all, I think that's a leadership failure. The willingness to take everything for a single minor (as opposed to say, capital crimes) incident I mean. So that guy retires as an e5 rather than an e6, but to lose it ALL? Just doesn't seem right. But then I suppose you have to determine where that 'minor' line stops and the 'not-so-minor- one starts. Meh.
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