{"id":64609,"date":"2016-02-29T15:47:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T20:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64609"},"modified":"2016-02-29T16:06:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T21:06:51","slug":"naval-gazing-in-colorado-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64609","title":{"rendered":"Navel gazing in Colorado Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Military.com<\/a>, thirty leaders from across the services have gathered to “clean up misconduct in the ranks”;<\/p>\n

Ethics officers and others identified a key issue as a lack of trust in leadership.<\/p>\n

“How do we get them to trust us?” Navy Capt. Scott Smith asked to kick off the two-day Department of Defense Professionalism Summit.<\/p>\n

Rear Adm. Peg Klein said that by bringing 30 leaders from across the military together, the Pentagon wanted to cross-pollinate budding efforts to strengthen ethics from each of the services.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

There are signs of progress, though, Klein said. The admiral cited the Army and the Marine Corps for their work. The Army has started an effort to train enlisted leaders to spot and stamp out bad behavior with the online “Not in My Squad” program.<\/p>\n

The Army program uses videos and virtual reality to put young leaders in an environment to make tough choices and learn from mistakes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, see, there’s the problem, right there. The misbehavior, given what we’ve read in the news is with field grade and flag officers, mostly in the O-6 ranks – not with junior leaders. Given what’s been in the news the last few years, <\/p>\n

I fully expect to read about misconduct at this conference in the coming months. That’s what happens when those people get together, right? <\/p>\n

That’s across all services. To punish the junior leaders with endless hours of training videos and practical application scenarios isn’t going to influence their senior leaders. And it’s certainly not going to help the junior gain trust in senior leadership. The problem goes beyond training. You can’t train someone who is forty years old to recognize sexual assault as bad, that’s a problem of a lack of character if they don’t know that sexual assault of a subordinate is wrong. It’s a lack of proper upbringing. If you tell a bunch of privates on their first day in basic training not to do it, they won’t – except for the ones who aren’t wired properly before they joined the military. Somehow that doesn’t work on many field grade officers. That’s the problem those 30 officers in Colorado Springs need to focus on, not on brain cell-killing PowerPoint presentations for junior leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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