{"id":34691,"date":"2013-03-24T05:26:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T09:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34691"},"modified":"2013-03-24T06:03:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T10:03:25","slug":"the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34691","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, 10 soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea were involved in serious and apparently alcohol-related incidents.\u00a0 One incident was a 5-person knife fight.\u00a0 Two other incidents involved wee-hours fights with civilian Korean police.<\/p>\n<p>Those are bad news.\u00a0 So the offenders are getting \u201chammered\u201d for getting hammered and stupid, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2013\/03\/army-bans-alcohol-2nd-infantry-division-south-korea-032013\/\">But so is every other soldier in the 2nd ID<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The CG has announced the following corrective measures in response to these incidents.\u00a0 He\u2019s imposing them ostensibly to \u201censure readiness\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Suspension of alcohol consumption.<\/li>\n<li>Termination of all three- and four-day weekend passes.<\/li>\n<li>A complete review of the pass policy.<\/li>\n<li>A review of all soldiers who have had past misconduct.<\/li>\n<li>Training on responsible conduct.<\/li>\n<li>Leadership seminars that will focus on discipline and its relationship to readiness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s your command, General.\u00a0 Yes, political impact and relations with your host nation are realities you have to consider.\u00a0 And yes, it\u2019s completely within your authority to do exactly what you did.<\/p>\n<p>But from what I\u2019ve seen in the past, indiscriminate mass punishments of innocent and guilty alike often are counterproductive.\u00a0 And I\u2019ve always thought that treating troops like adults rather than children was generally a better approach.<\/p>\n<p>The knuckleheads who get drunk and seriously stupid indeed need to be nailed to the wall. \u00a0But I frankly don\u2019t see a need to punish the other 99+% who weren\u2019t total idiots.<\/p>\n<p>(sigh)\u00a0 I\u2019d hoped we\u2019d moved past this kind of 18th Century leadership in our armed forces.\u00a0 I guess I was wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, 10 soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea were involved in serious and apparently &hellip; <a title=\"\u201cThe Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves\u201d\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34691\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cThe Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves\u201d<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34691","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}