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Show Brent Huff doing what I feel is right, then I don't want to stick around. I wa never a car r military guy. I never planned on being in the military, so there's never really been a temptati n t compromise. So, yeah, Israel, I felt like they just kind of, once they got a hold of us again, they tried taking everything over. I felt a little bit betrayed by my guys at the end of Israel, too, because we had one of the first sergeants decide he was going to do a surprise search for contraband. So everyone just had to dump their gear. I wasn't too concerned. I thought it was a complete waste of time. But, of course, one of my team leaders, he had some porno in his pack and we were supposed to have it. I wasn't so much mad that he had it; I was more mad that he came to a bag drop with it (laughs). If he had any leadership ability, he would have gotten rid of it. But the worse thing was that a guy in his team, who obviously he didn't check, because he couldn't take care of himself, he had some ordnance. He had a pop up in his bag. The first sergeant didn't find any of this stuff. I had like our guide go toss it somewhere. But I had to go yell at this kid, who'd been a good lance corporal, a new guy. Honestly I felt he was more failed by his team leader, but, yeah, I took him behind a fence and ... because it was a pop up. We're about to fly home and he had live ordnance in his bag. Seems like one of those things that's pretty obvious. Then I yelled at the team leader. This kid, nice enough kid, but he looked like one of the handicapped kids on South Park. I felt bad because I liked him and I'd really tried over the last year to help him be a corporal. But I even pulled the, there's kind of a card that at some point you can always pull on someone, like, "Do you want your rank? Do you want to be a corporal." And it's just so engrained in you that, yes, you want leadership. Anytime you have the chance to step up to any plate, do you want it. He kind 57 |
