Posted on Aug 8, 2018
Probe: Fired Marine CO Was 'Big, Angry Colonel' Obsessed With His Own Flight Time
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I know this all happened during the times before instant news, but wow there isn’t much anymore you can get away with that won’t make it on the interwebs before your relief takes over and the ink is dry on your relief memo.
Probe: Fired Marine CO Was 'Big, Angry Colonel' Obsessed With His Own Flight Time
Posted from taskandpurpose.com
Leadership
Toxic Leadership
Professional Development
Mentor
Pilot
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You should have joined the army and been a warrant officer instead but maybe this guy was too much of a hothead anyway
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SSG Warren Swan
Don’t think he would’ve made it there either. Y’all would’ve been knee deep in his ass
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I'm glad it wasn't very prevalent, but I knew several like him over the years. This was a failure of leadership. Blue sky and fair weather pilots...... Only when the weather was bad, or the mission was difficult would they relinquish and let the "riffraff" do those flights....
A generally reliable rule of thumb: If you really wanted to get the job done, give a tough mission to a CW2 (P) or CW3 (P). They had both time and experience, and they were "hungry". :-)
A generally reliable rule of thumb: If you really wanted to get the job done, give a tough mission to a CW2 (P) or CW3 (P). They had both time and experience, and they were "hungry". :-)
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SSG Warren Swan
Weird part is he’s not alone. He just happened to have been caught that day. Imagine if a slew of them got caught at the same time regardless of branch....they’d have to promote NCOs to fill Junior Officer slots due to all the sudden officer positions that those former JOs vacated taking the senior ones.
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