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Show Brent Huff r 200 out. The new guys I felt weren t even properly trained coming out f boot camp and I. I felt like they had literally just come from high school, including like thi kid. He did not, he obviously was not engrained with the kind of, I don 't know, maybe even f 1 e confidence or motivation, the kind of thing that you rely on, really. The people above me I felt like were idiots. I felt like this officer was trying to control the whole platoon and he had no idea about infantry. He had no desire to tap into the wealth of knowledge. He had a handful of combat veterans that had been in the unit since we deployed and I remember once after brief that ... where was this? Anyway, we'd done our training operation and basically things had gone wrong and it was useless training. All the sergeants got up that were combat veterans and told him, respectfully, told him that basically this training was kind of useless. We didn't have any communication, we didn't know what we were doing, basically the command center, they were playing their little games, but they could have just done that with a board. They could have played a board game. They didn't actually need a bunch of Marines out rolling around on trucks not knowing what they were doing. That's what we respectfully told him. I think he added a "respectfully," which is supposed to make it actually respectful, but he said, "Respectfully, shut the fuck up." That's what he said. How do you deal with that when you know you have experience and you're supposed to control a platoon of guys in a situation where people can die? So I got incompetent people below me, some competent, not to generalize, but basically all the people above me at that point, I didn't feel like anyone above me had any idea of how things should work, or at least an idea of how things should work that I found acceptable. So I was done at that point. 59 |
