Every week there is some news story about General so-and-so stepping aside due to investigations. The Canadian Forces Reddit seems to be cheering this shit on, and saying that all of the senior people in the military need to be replaced. Anybody on here with time in have some perspective on what the fuck is going on?
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Throw in the fact that the forces stopped being a meritocracy a long, long, time ago and that most members are intensely dissatisfied with an increasingly out of touch senior leadership that's interested more in it's own advancement than the welfare of the troops and its no wonder the rank and file are cheering when senior officers get taken to town.
If we're going back 20 or 30 years to look for faults, there's a few senior leadership types I'd like to see brought to justice for causing deaths and injuries that were swept under the rug, but that's not gonna happen because "sex" is not in title of the offense.
Yup. I remember the days when it was a big deal to find out which coroiprals got selected for leadership training that year. It was highly competitive. Now they just hand it out like candy. I've also taught on leadership courses that had explicit "no-fail" policies. We were told that if a candidate failed a hard-assessed task, it was our fault as as instructors for "not mentoring them adequately". Why have tests at all if people can't fail them? They basically just removed all quality control from the leadership selection & training system. That was the moment I realized it was a sinking ship.