They receive orders from their superiors, translate them into shit that's comprehensible to their subordinates, and then give those orders to said subordinates.
2nd LT - mogged by PSG
1st LT - mogged by CPT
CPT - finally, I'm doing my job! -t. unwary O3
MAJ - starts balding
LTCOL - actually starts doing their job
COL - where the men who brownnosed instead of doing their jobs go
1star - thinks he's made it
2star - thinks he'll make it to 3
3star - actually made it, at the low low price of his soul
4star - pretends to act dignified for the visiting politicians while the 2 stars get the job done
What's a better use of time?
1. wallowing for 4 years in peacetime military near some CONUS high-crime shithole base in exchange for a few months of combat training, networking with a bunch of dudes whose biggest achievement is their dip collection and their constant personal drama
2. Getting a small local business off the ground using family loans, building a worthwhile network with others in your hometown, and bringing jobs back into your community
Military seems like an inferior time investment. Almost like an option for the uncreative.
>whose biggest achievement is their dip collection and their constant personal drama
dont forget my truck, some already dated tats, a failed marriage, undiagnosed colon cancer, and kids who hate me
Officers - I made the decisions and sign paperwork, I also do a lot of b***hwork for the officer above me. Lots of office politicizing and drama.
NCOs - I am the representative of the junior enlisted under my leadership, while also being their guide and mentor. If senior, good chance I'm incredibly disillusioned with multiple divorces.
Warrants - Lol, I'm certified and do nothing but my job. It's fricking awesome. (Aviation not included).
>O1-O2
Fricking property and CONOPs
XOs do the Captain's b***hwork >O3
Calendar and training management >O4
The LTC's b***hwork (Figuring out how to make future plans actually work) >O5
Try to steer the BN away from the BC and the BDE S3's bullshit >O6
Try to keep a brigade from falling apart (which it will, easily) >O7-9
Gay sex and politics
>>O7-9 >Gay sex and politics
You're not wrong but at the same time it's a really important job. Someone's gotta play politics to get the state to actually issue procurement for your forces, otherwise you get a Russia situation.
It's funny, watching war movies growing up they always wanted to target the officer. Like everything falls apart. Reality after joining was it isn't the 1600s anymore, if someone wastes the LT the effectiveness of the platoon has not diminished at all. Taking out the platoon sergeant or another competent NCO is much worse.
Believe it or not, but lieutenants used to be even more disposable than they are today. What role was a butterbar supposed to fill when the smallest unit capable of independent movement on the battlefield was the company?
Abstraction, administration, resource management and allocation.
An enlistedman that is too busy thinking about what the next move must be is not focused on his actual role, which is whatever the frick he was told to do and do well.
An officer that is micromanaging and getting far too involved in the technical side of operations is not doing his job well either. He should not pretend he knows how to operate all this equipment as well as the tards. The tard knows his job like his dick.
The O knows the desired end result, and all of the factors impacting it. He is detached, but present. The E knows what the result he should be aiming for is, and the process of getting there.
In reality nobody even knows what the frick their job really is and everyone bends it to what it personally signifies for them. Everyone has a different idea of what being in their role means to them, and as such will perform differently under different conditions.
Gotta have some place for the yiffs to go instead of shooting up a school, you think intel agencies can pull an iran contra and arm all the yiffs to shoot up their shools ? It's an out dated convention to enforce social norms for sociopaths when they use to do something useful instead of run for politician in charge of the military and had to run a military and not qualify for the military itself.
frick ya mudda
officize
this ffs
its in the name
Frick ya mudda
They have an office
They receive orders from their superiors, translate them into shit that's comprehensible to their subordinates, and then give those orders to said subordinates.
manage and organize and get invited to fancier dinner parties
Paperwork.
2nd LT - mogged by PSG
1st LT - mogged by CPT
CPT - finally, I'm doing my job! -t. unwary O3
MAJ - starts balding
LTCOL - actually starts doing their job
COL - where the men who brownnosed instead of doing their jobs go
1star - thinks he's made it
2star - thinks he'll make it to 3
3star - actually made it, at the low low price of his soul
4star - pretends to act dignified for the visiting politicians while the 2 stars get the job done
father was a 2 star, confirm accurate
they used to run it like petty kingdoms or Saxon warlords
We don't need junior officers, they can all frick off; everything junior officers do/manage should just be handed over to senior NCOs.
but making the NCOs clean up after the junior officers is how you train new senior NCOs
the circle of life
Letting junior officers wet themselves in an environment where SNCOs can clean it up is how you train senior officers
They office.
What's a better use of time?
1. wallowing for 4 years in peacetime military near some CONUS high-crime shithole base in exchange for a few months of combat training, networking with a bunch of dudes whose biggest achievement is their dip collection and their constant personal drama
2. Getting a small local business off the ground using family loans, building a worthwhile network with others in your hometown, and bringing jobs back into your community
Military seems like an inferior time investment. Almost like an option for the uncreative.
>whose biggest achievement is their dip collection and their constant personal drama
dont forget my truck, some already dated tats, a failed marriage, undiagnosed colon cancer, and kids who hate me
If that's all you can get out of 1 then you were never going to pull off 2.
is this an accurate depiction of how americans in California conduct real estate business?
Tard wrangler.
But who wrangles the tard wranglers?
police that moustache! Frick this guy, his movie character was great, sad to have it tarred by such degeneracy
>i styerred her up real good with the groomin' standard
>que continens illud morones continenius?
From
>the grooming standard
to
>a standard groomer
Somebody's got to make the powerpoints, kids.
They get bullied or make powerpoints
How many aneurysms do you think that chart has caused?
Officers - I made the decisions and sign paperwork, I also do a lot of b***hwork for the officer above me. Lots of office politicizing and drama.
NCOs - I am the representative of the junior enlisted under my leadership, while also being their guide and mentor. If senior, good chance I'm incredibly disillusioned with multiple divorces.
Warrants - Lol, I'm certified and do nothing but my job. It's fricking awesome. (Aviation not included).
>O1-O2
Fricking property and CONOPs
XOs do the Captain's b***hwork
>O3
Calendar and training management
>O4
The LTC's b***hwork (Figuring out how to make future plans actually work)
>O5
Try to steer the BN away from the BC and the BDE S3's bullshit
>O6
Try to keep a brigade from falling apart (which it will, easily)
>O7-9
Gay sex and politics
>>O7-9
>Gay sex and politics
You're not wrong but at the same time it's a really important job. Someone's gotta play politics to get the state to actually issue procurement for your forces, otherwise you get a Russia situation.
Another day, another E-4 who got dressed down by the new 2Lt
KWAB
Bad move. Butter bars vs E-4 Mafia. LT is going to end up "losing" his NVG's and stuff missing out of the CONEX that he signed for.
Depends, how high of a rank are we talking about here?
To keep the ~~*college*~~ ponzei scheme going.
Bravely soak up sniper fire for the common soldiery.
It's funny, watching war movies growing up they always wanted to target the officer. Like everything falls apart. Reality after joining was it isn't the 1600s anymore, if someone wastes the LT the effectiveness of the platoon has not diminished at all. Taking out the platoon sergeant or another competent NCO is much worse.
Believe it or not, but lieutenants used to be even more disposable than they are today. What role was a butterbar supposed to fill when the smallest unit capable of independent movement on the battlefield was the company?
Abstraction, administration, resource management and allocation.
An enlistedman that is too busy thinking about what the next move must be is not focused on his actual role, which is whatever the frick he was told to do and do well.
An officer that is micromanaging and getting far too involved in the technical side of operations is not doing his job well either. He should not pretend he knows how to operate all this equipment as well as the tards. The tard knows his job like his dick.
The O knows the desired end result, and all of the factors impacting it. He is detached, but present. The E knows what the result he should be aiming for is, and the process of getting there.
In reality nobody even knows what the frick their job really is and everyone bends it to what it personally signifies for them. Everyone has a different idea of what being in their role means to them, and as such will perform differently under different conditions.
Gotta have some place for the yiffs to go instead of shooting up a school, you think intel agencies can pull an iran contra and arm all the yiffs to shoot up their shools ? It's an out dated convention to enforce social norms for sociopaths when they use to do something useful instead of run for politician in charge of the military and had to run a military and not qualify for the military itself.
Lts and Captains should be able to flog enlisted just like the good old days
Be tard wranglers and protect their tards from the evil gaze of higher ranking brass tards.
make me sad 🙁