{"id":56013,"date":"2014-10-24T09:06:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T13:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56013"},"modified":"2014-10-24T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T13:24:50","slug":"toxic-ltc-tammy-baugh-back-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56013","title":{"rendered":"“Toxic” LTC Tammy Baugh back on the job"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The Stars & Stripes<\/a> reports that an aviation battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Tammy Baugh was removed from her position, along with her sergeant major when the Fort Carson command structure received complaints that she had been verbally abusive to her subordinates, threw things at them and stormed out of events and meetings when she was displeased. Her response to the complaints? “You want toxic? I’ll show you toxic.” <\/p>\n

Well an investigation revealed that the complaints were true, and the investigators recommended that she be removed from her command. But, you know, she was returned.<\/p>\n

Dozens of soldiers were interviewed, with most calling the climate bad, or worse.<\/p>\n

Baugh told investigators she was misunderstood.<\/p>\n

“My passion can sometimes be confused with anger,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Fort Carson confirmed that Baugh returned to command, but didn’t respond to questions on what steps were taken to change the command climate in her battalion.<\/p>\n

“The suspension imposed on the leadership has been lifted and both have resumed command responsibilities,” Fort Carson said in a statement Tuesday. “Neither the commander nor the command sergeant major are facing any disciplinary action and have been cleared of any wrong doing.”<\/p>\n

In her statement, Baugh said her critics are slackers.<\/p>\n

“It seems that those who cannot meet the standard have the loudest voice,” she wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, and a good commander would know how to address those issues without throwing things and publicly belittling people. Baugh isn’t a good commander. A male commander would be looking for a nice ROTC assignment near his retirement home at this point. Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno promised to remove toxic commanders from their jobs, but I guess there were limitations to that promise that we didn’t anticipate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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