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Show Brent Huff t b r 2009 of shrugged hi shoulders. I said,' You don't want to be a corporal?" I aid, Okay, I'll have you reduced. I don't know what to do with that. I can't work with that. It didn ' t happen. I did try. I told the guys in the office, "Hey, he does not want to be a corporal and I don't want him to be a corporal." It's not even nothing personal; it's just that I wanted that to happen. I felt like that's the kind of thing that should happen. I felt like as a platoon sergeant, if I had a Marine that didn't want to be in a position he was in, and I didn't want him to be in that position, that that's something that I should be able to change. And it never happened. JCW: Did you kick him out of his leadership position, though? BH: I changed the billeting, but honestly I was out of the unit so soon that it didn't make a difference. That was just disappointing. I kind of felt like it was the end of the good times. At that point I felt like the CO, I just didn't like at all. I felt like he was a complete frat boy. I felt like he shouldn't be a major. He reminded me of officers I'd been running into a lot lately, at [unclear] and at other places, they seriously just first name basis frat boys that really should have been enlisted. The way they talked, the way they acted, they weren't official representatives of the United States government. They weren't thinking people. They were just guys playing this role. They were just these chummy meatheads. So it bothered me, this idea, do I really want to go to combat with an infantry company, a ton a fire power, a lot of ability to destroy things I'm big on the rule of threes. I feel like there's no way one person can control more than around three people. Again, I felt like, for one, as a platoon sergeant, I was stifled. I couldn't do what I wanted to do with my own platoon. I had a few, for about a year I had three good squad leaders and I was able to control things, but they were getting 58 |
