{"id":40442,"date":"2014-03-18T11:11:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T15:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40442"},"modified":"2014-03-18T11:47:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T15:47:29","slug":"army-magazine-candor-can-the-army-handle-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40442","title":{"rendered":"Army Magazine: Candor; Can the Army Handle the Truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our buddy, Rick Maze, called a few months ago and asked if I wanted to contribute to his piece about whether the Army can listen to the soldiers, you know, the soldiers who faced the enemy down in the latest wars and had to actually pull the triggers. Rick just moved to Army Magazine (the Association of the US ARMY publication) to become their Editor-in-Chief, from his many years at the Military Times, so I answered in the affirmative. Here is his piece in the April edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s my portion of the interview;<\/p>\n

\"Army<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I don’t think that the Army’s inability to listen to the troops is a new phenomenon. It’s always been like that. If you’re not a War College graduate, everything you say will fall on deaf ears. Of course, it’s like that in every professional field. After the Gulf War, there were several sessions of brain storming over friendly fire with which I participated and usually, my input was dismissed quickly by staff officers who didn’t happen to be anywhere near the action and were forehead defilade in their M577 command tracks. <\/p>\n

Their “lessons learned” were only valid if they were in the official accounts of combat. The same unit that awarded a Sergeant Major a BSM w\/V for taking out an Iraqi tank with his pistol and a Sergeant First Class a Purple Heart for getting hit in the eye with an RPG fin as it flew over his head was depending on reports and not on the people who were on the ground.<\/p>\n

I can only imagine the bullshit that you younger guys have to plow through to teach the Army what you learned by doing, not reading. But, at least you can see that eventually you’ll get your revenge like I did in this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our buddy, Rick Maze, called a few months ago and asked if I wanted to contribute … Army Magazine: Candor; Can the Army Handle the Truth?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40442","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}