{"id":11122,"date":"2016-01-27T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=11122"},"modified":"2016-01-27T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:48:11","slug":"humor-5-epic-military-leadership-fails-of-this-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/27\/humor-5-epic-military-leadership-fails-of-this-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Humor: 5 EPIC Military Leadership Fails of This Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"

I debated seriously about whether or not to put this under the “Humor” section, but I came to the conclusion if we don’t laugh about it we will cry. Prepare to Laugh really hard and then shake your head in unbelief. This is why or Military can’t have Nice Things! -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The last six years have not been without their share of bad behavior and consequences.<\/h2>\n
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We\u2019re less than a month into 2016, and already no fewer than four senior military brass have behaved badly. Senior leader sackings have become so mundane that it\u2019s become a running gag at Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tom Ricks\u2019 Foreign Policy column<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There have been dozens of senior officer scandals since 2010, but here are five of the most outlandish.<\/p>\n

Maj. Gen. Carey saves the world from war, one drunk day at a time.<\/b><\/p>\n

America\u2019s nuclear missile force is no stranger to scandal between various episodes ofcheating<\/a>, drug use<\/a>, and gambling<\/a>. But Maj. Gen. Michael Carey, who commanded nearly 450 nuclear missiles, took the nuclear community to new highs (or lows, depending on your point of view) during a five-day bender to Moscow in July 2013.<\/p>\n

According to the Air Force\u2019s official investigation<\/a> \u2014 which reads like a chapter from Tucker Max\u2019s \u201cI Hope They Serve Beer in Hell\u201d \u2014 Carey cavorted with suspicious foreign women, unsuccessfully tried to dance on stage with a mariachi band, and boasted to no one in particular during a layover in Zurich that he \u201csaves the world from war every day.\u201d Carey was relieved of his duties shortly thereafter and retired less than a year later as a brigadier general.<\/p>\n

Navy Rear Adm. David Baucom thinks that excess baggage fees are a drag.<\/b><\/p>\n

Not wanting to spend $25 on excess baggage fees, Rear Adm. David Baucom left his pajamas at home while attending a conference at a beachfront hotel in Florida in April 2015. It was the beginning of an evening that would make Frank the Tank blush.<\/p>\n

A few rounds of wine, whiskey, and gin at the hotel bar hit the admiral like a \u201cton of bricks,\u201d according to the inspector general\u2019s report<\/a>, as he fell down repeatedly, smacking his head first on a barstool, then on the back of a couch. After being helped to his room by a busboy, the admiral awoke in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, but instead found himself locked out of his room \u2014 without his clothes. Two alarmed female guests reported the admiral\u2019s antics to hotel security. Shortly after the incident, Baucom was transferred to the Pentagon. If there\u2019s a silver lining to the incident, it provided great fodder<\/a> for West Point superintendent Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen during the annual Army-Navy game \u2014 perhaps the only high point in Army\u2019s 14 consecutive losses to America\u2019s sea service.<\/p>\n

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The internet may be for porn, but government computers aren\u2019t.<\/b><\/p>\n

That was a lesson Rear Adm. Rick Williams, head of the U.S. Pacific Fleet\u2019s carrier strike group training command, learned the hard way, after being relieved of his duties earlier this month<\/a>, according to reports from Navy Times and Stars and Stripes.<\/p>\n

Quick tip: It takes more than just a few accidental clicks to run afoul of the Defense Department\u2019s ban on pornography on government computers. It seems the admiral couldn\u2019t wait until he got home to get his daily dose of PornHub. Next time you\u2019re forced to sit through hours of mandatory training on cyber security and proper use of government computers, you can thank this guy.<\/p>\n

Col. James Johnson III is a ladies man.<\/b><\/p>\n

The colonel, who commanded the Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade, was caught in an affair. While I don\u2019t think I could handle one wife, he had two, and was convicted\u00a0during court-martial proceedings in 2012<\/a>, pleading guilty to over fifteen charges, including bigamy.<\/p>\n

The affair became known when Johnson\u2019s wife went to the doctor and discovered she was no longer Johnson\u2019s TRICARE insurance beneficiary. It wasn\u2019t a paperwork glitch \u2014 Johnson had secretly married a former Iraqi interpreter who emigrated from Iraq to the Netherlands. It\u2019s a tale as old as time: Boy meets girl; boy meets another girl in Iraq; boy faces charges of steering millions of dollars of contracts towards the Iraqi girl\u2019s family; boy allegedly uses government funds to visit girl in the Netherlands<\/a>; boy is forced to retire as a lieutenant colonel and pay over $300,000 in fines<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re thinking of starting your own drinking club, just don\u2019t.<\/b><\/p>\n

Rank has its privileges, and for Army Lt. Col. David Chiarenza, that included the honor of being the \u201cSupreme Allied Commander\u201d of his own fraternity-style drinking club,according to Stars and Stripes<\/a>. The club\u2019s bylaws, tallying over eight pages, were longer than many combat operations orders.<\/p>\n

Witnesses testified participation in the club was \u201cunofficially mandatory,\u201d with attendance logged at most weekend get-togethers. A flyer for one such battalion bender in March 2012 encouraged junior officers to bring two bottles of alcohol, advertising the party would last \u201cuntil liver failure.\u201d According to the investigation \u2014 which makes references to plastic swords, pacifiers, and other novelties for games, the battalion\u2019s operations officer \u2014 Maj. Christopher Garbarino allegedly groped a female lieutenant and eventually had to be tied down with duct tape<\/a>. The incident landed the major in confinement<\/a> and cost him six months\u2019 pay.<\/p>\n

This is why the military can\u2019t have nice things.<\/p>\n

Read the Original at Task and Purpose<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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