Arsenault185

Sir, Active SSG here. I feel that I have to call you out on this:

. I doubt the guards received guidance to engage in the kind of criminal conduct they performed....Clearly, the guards had not been trained or educated on the moral standards of an army of democracy, and for this you can blame the commanders higher in the chain.

"Criminal" being the key word here. They knew full well what they were doing, and that it was wrong.

To say, as a leader, that you think they needed more training is ridiculous, and it is this shared (going on a nice sturdy limb here) mindset from Army leadership that "more training" is always needed to prevent this crap from happening. This leads to wastes of time like LOW, CTIP, SHARP, IA, POV risk assessments, ETC.

Hours and hours and hours of wasted soldier time because some dickbag somewhere messed up. And every time this sort of crap happens, what does leadership do? "Oh well, they just need more training. Make it annual, and mandatory for all personnel"

Why is this mindset so prevalent? As adults we know that the shit we are being "taught" (we all just skip right to the end for that certificate, so EVERY last one of these things is a check the box exercise) is wrong no matter who you are. Is there anything that can realistically be done to end the insanity?

It seems to me to be a knee jerk, CYA action and nothing more. No disrespect to you sir, but as you are aware, I don't often get the opportunity to ask these sorts of candid questions.

It's OK. You're probably just more of a Kirk Guy.

for the online crap everyone has the answers anyway.

Which negates the training.

SHARP

yeah that came out wrong. What I mean to say is that training or not, ITS ILLEGAL. We all know that. If you need a cumulative 40+hours annually of training on the subject to know that you shouldn't rape somebody, then you're a piece of shit in the first place. So when the training occurs in a seminar forum, everyone sits there not really paying attention, hence waste of time. the online portions, people just blaze to the end jam the answers in there, which are all common sense and can be answered without reading the material, and get their certificate, hence waste of time.

This tickled my feels. Thank you on behalf of my bretheren!

Reminds me of the parable about the poor woman at temple when the Pharisees were mocking her contribution.