Posted by wisbaker on April 03, 2014 at 18:46:13 from (173.30.33.15):
In Reply to: Sad news posted by Nancy Howell on April 03, 2014 at 06:41:08:
In my opinion (for what it's worth) this is a symptom with many causes. Some are based in our current culture in which we don't equip our children to deal with adversity, a culture that even though it professes to care about people really places a very low value on people if they have an opinion or occupation that doesn't have value to the leadership. If you ever go through military officer commissioning training they teach you a lot about honor, duty, mission and truth. Unfortunately these values only get lip service in today's military. Don't blame the military it is mirroring the values of our society. I am a former Air Force Captain, quite frankly I don't trust or believe any field or flag grade officer, most of them would put their mother on a street corner selling herself if they thought it would get them promoted. The last duty station I was at the wing had but one mission...get the old man promoted and you were expected to lie cheat, steal and die if necessary to accomplish that. I was assigned to a Tactical Training Wing, their stated mission was to train fighter pilots, our actual mission was to win best MWR (Morale, Welfare & Recreation) and Best Billeting in the Air Force, why? Because this is what will get the old man promoted. Training and equipping troops (the major peacetime mission of our Air Force) was fourth or fifth on the list. Reducing retiree complaints about the BX or Medical group ranked higher than the mission to train and equip personnel to fight. This base didn't admit to having a mobility commitment, mobility meaning having personnel trained and equipped to deploy in support of Higher Headquarters Taskings (like Desert Shield). Unfortunately some members (like myself) where on lists and in war time plans that identified us as assets to be used to support Air Force or DoD missions and that deployment would be separate and outside any tasking or mission of our home wing. Result we were on a list to provide support and our commanders really didn't care or support that because it wasn't their mission.
How many cheating and recruit abuse scandals has the US Air Force Academy been through in the last 30 years? How did the Air Force deal with it? While I was in Officer Training School (yes I was a 90 day wonder) we had a classmate thrown out of the service with a less that honorable discharge for falsifying records indicating he participated in physical fitness training. At the same time Air Academy Cadets were caught cheating on a physics exam, their punishment- they had to take the class over.
We now live in a society with no absolute truths and those in power are willing to trample on our rights to get what they want. My constitutional right to freely exercise my religion and express my thoughts and beliefs is now abridged in the name of political correctness. I am not allowed to pray in some areas because it may offend some people HOWEVER I believe Homosexuality is wrong but If I state that or even express a belief that gay marriage is wrong I can be attacked and maybe even charged with a hate crime. I am forced to accept and appear to approve behavior I believe is wrong.
Don't get me wrong as a former member of the Military I understand that as a military member you have to tow the line and support the orders and missions of you superiors and commands. But to many of our field and flag grade officers are willing to issue unlawful orders to further their careers or even out of convenience, something every cadet and officer trainee is taught very early as being wrong and unlawful. The current military command is not willing to deal with these issues in an appropriate manner.
Our current military adds a lot of stress that isn't really needed to support the mission and the avenues for stress release have been limited. More and more our military members are treated like they have a normal job and we have removed a lot of the support/benefits that used to be in place to deal with these issues.
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