 |
| (Photo courtesy US Army Public Affairs on Flickr) |
Carl Prine has compiled extensive--and damning--research on the Army's Warrior Transition Units (WTUs). According to Prine, these organizations, instituted in the wake of the Walter Reed scandal, have merely given rise to over thirty mini-Walter Reeds, in which drug addicts, malingerers and "slicksleeves" outnumber Purple Heart recipients. In a related article, Prine explains that the Army's lax recruiting standards have only compounded the WTU's woes.
(But don't just take Carl's word for it. A certain someone's been saying this for a while.)
Shame on us. We can do better.
2 comments:
Starbuck,
We should do better, but I am not convinced we can do better. Toxic leadership has become the preferred method of "leadership" (I use the term loosely) in the Army. Actually caring for a Soldiers is an alien concept to a toxic leader. We simply do not have that many people that know how to "do better."
I am afraid most Army leaders wouldn't know where to start.
Great spot, I'm retweeting it right now.
This also explains how the Army is 100% on its numbers, but every unit is drastically short manpower.
Post a Comment