{"id":103949,"date":"2020-08-20T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=103949"},"modified":"2020-08-19T21:33:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T01:33:15","slug":"more-toxic-leadership-but-this-one-got-a-star-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103949","title":{"rendered":"More toxic leadership, but this one got a star for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103950\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103950\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mil-jennifer-grant-salutes-3000-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mil-jennifer-grant-salutes-3000-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mil-jennifer-grant-salutes-3000-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mil-jennifer-grant-salutes-3000.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-Col (now Brig Gen) Jennifer Grant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another 122-page Air Force IG report has come to light. This one deals with the commander of the 50th Space Wing at Schriever AFB, CO. Then-Colonel Jennifer Grant is described by rank-and-file as well as leadership underneath her as &#8220;tyrannical&#8221; and &#8220;toxic.&#8221; She reduced many of her subordinates to tears, many left rather than work with her, and one subordinate she often clashed with committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Task and Purpose quotes the IG report;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCol. Grant created an environment infused with fear and intimidation, which stilted communication and reporting, and undermined the welfare and morale of her subordinates,\u201d the investigation said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn doing so, the AFSPC\/IG [Air Force Space Command Inspector General] determined the conditions Col. Grant created were the worst the IG team had seen in 20 years.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Among the accusations found in the report were;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calling a subordinate\u00a0in mental health treatment for suicidal ideations to criticize her for listing an enlisted service member on her safety plan, making the woman even more distraught.<\/li>\n<li>Lecturing a subordinate at her promotion ceremony for not personally informing Grant that a brigadier general would be the presiding officer at the ceremony.<\/li>\n<li>Berating her executive officer to the point that she crawled under her desk and cried.<\/li>\n<li>Publicly humiliating a briefer in front of investigators.<\/li>\n<li>Exploding at an enlisted airman for a get well card to the command chief before Grant could sign it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She commanded the 50th Space Wing from June 2017 to June 2019, and left a considerable impression in that short time. Her immediate staff were the worst witnesses against her it seems.<\/p>\n<p>The IG&#8217;s report came out in October of 2019. Despite the significant questions about her leadership style, the Air Force selected her for Brigadier General. She pinned the stars on July 2nd this year and is now working at Air Force Headquarters at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>Sources; <a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/air-force-toxic-commander-promoted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Task &amp; Purpose<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2020\/08\/19\/inspectors-said-her-toxic-leadership-was-worst-seen-20-years-she-just-became-1-star.html?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1597859845\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Military.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another 122-page Air Force IG report has come to light. This one deals with the commander &hellip; <a title=\"More toxic leadership, but this one got a star for it\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103949\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More toxic leadership, but this one got a star for it<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,236,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-wtf","category-ygbsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103951,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103949\/revisions\/103951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}