They asked us to bring some butter bars and cadets with us to a shoot house once.
Made those clowns clear rooms with flashlights and broom handles
Captains are either great or terrible with zero in between imo
*long post ahead*
Lol. My first unit’s commanders and staff captains were okay except this one mech inf. company commander. Dude was fat and lazy as fukk because he had been a tanker his entire career.
Ft. Campbell was a better variety. Whether smart or dumb they are mostly cool. Our Headquarters company commander was a scientific genius. Dude had a masters in some chemical scientist shyt. Could teach you all kinds of shyt. When it came to commanding it was like having a Samurai, with Down syndrome, on amphetamines, in charge of your life lol.
He skimped the company layout before deployment. A couple of months into the year he realized that he was missing tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment lmao.
It started with little questions here and there. He’d pop up around sections, asking to see stuff so he could learn more about it. Then he would visit outposts to poke around alone. Then he would outright accuse sections of stealing shyt lmao.
6 months in his tried stealing some aid bags from our treatment section. He walked in to casually talk to the PA and grabbed 3 aid bags and tried to walk out. I was up there resupplying and my platoon sergeant, the evac NCO, the treatment NCO, the PA and MEDO almost jumped him. He kept saying he didn’t want the narcs inside but he thought they were on the books. Our MEDO and PA bought them with their own money. Some of us had hand me downs from other NCO’s lol.
Dude was sad as fukk thinking about all the money he would potentially have to pay and he still hadn’t told the battalion commander lol.
He got moved to BDOC (they’re in charge of base security/tower guard/gate guard/ambo exchanges). They moved him because he made weird decisions under fire. He begged to come out on a mission and finally came out at the same time my line platoon was out.
We constantly took indirect from a hill overlooking our base and the village on the other side. The plan was to distract the villagers with two maneuver platoons handing out water, toys, halal meals, etc. while a small scouting team of Rangers dug around the village and hill for evidence.
I got snatched up to be their medic and joined the scouting group. The Commander sprinted over to us from the battalion PSD and exposed our staging position. We were in the bushes taking a knee and he kept calling me the name of another black soldier in my sister platoon lol. I finally said “the fukk do you want sir?! I’m Doc!”. Dude asked me if my aidbag was from battalion and if he could read the serial on my PEQ and Night vision before running off.
When the battalion commander finally found out about all the shyt missing from the books out company commander was pretty much stuck at a desk. He made some maintenance dudes weld him some ninja stars and he would try to get people let him play William tell.
during the second biggest fight of the year the enemy got inside our wire and their entire force had ACU uniforms on with suicide vests. They were split and isolated, pretty early, in an apartment complex and a corn field on the other side of a waist high wall. Our company commander grabbed a bunch of BDOC guys like “this is our moment!” And led them through a small hole in the fence only to get pinned down at the edge of the corn field lmao. We had to stop our clearing mission to go get them out and cover the rest. The battalion commander had to stop adjusting rotor wing support and was screaming on the net “WHO THE fukk IS THAT OUT THERE?!?! WHY THE fukk ARE THEY JUST HUDDLING TOGETHER?!”
We hated the fukk out of him while in country but we were all cool again when we got back lol.
