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I'm gonna disagree with the loyalty comment here. Gen Z folks are loyal to their friends. They're loyal to their family. They're loyal even to their country (to perhaps less of a degree). What they're not is loyal to any employer. And rightfully so, as literally every experience they've had...

I would humbly submit that this is the exact attitude which got us into this mess in the first place. Here's the thing about toxic leadership: 99% of the time, it's backed by legal authority. We grant people in the CAF an immense amount of power over their subordinates, and far too many people...

If we don't bother looking for them, then we're tolerating them by default. I do think that we're going to need to confront the fact that the "do what I say because I say so" leadership model (and especially the "do as I say not as I do") is becoming increasingly unsuitable for the...

There are two primary causes of the retention crisis: A) An every growing gap between what the CAF is paying and what members can get with civilian employers (also keeping in mind COL differences) B) Toxic leadership. Sexual harassment, tolerance of Nazi chuds, etc, that's all a symptom of the...

Or granddaughter.

I thought I knew the dude, did a bit of googling to check, and found out that I was thinking of someone else but did figure out his deets. Based upon combining a few of the mini bios included in articles he's written for the Maritime Engineering Journal, he joined as some type of NCM in 1957...

"Ready Aye Ready" is destroying the Navy, because we'll move heaven and earth to get ships to sea, regardless of how inconsequential the task nor how dire the impact on material and personnel. Because we're not actually ready. We just go anyways.

I mean, it's clear here that you were a part of the problem, and didn't have any qualms turning a blind eye to injustice, as long as you could maintain some thin veneer of plausible deniability. So... what would your proposed solution be? What would you suggest be put in place to ensure that...

Posting people to cities and paying them enough when they're posted there that they can live there comfortably. Stop doing things that are major dissatisfiers, and people won't be dissatisfied. Poor pay is a major dissatisfier. Making them live in shitty places is a major dissatisfier. People...

This is the type of insane rambling I'd expect from the tinfoil hat wearing homeless dude downtown. Seeing it from someone who claims to be a Chief is frankly rather disturbing.

The entire concept of the reserves is strange. What other organization in the country would decide that they want to hire a bunch of part time and temp full time workers... and put them all together to run themselves, mostly separate from the main body of the organization? There's nothing...

My current CO is trying to get us all to replace every memo that doesn't need to be a memo with an e-mail instead. If it's not being forwarded on along with other paperwork to some outside agency, there's no reason to have things on paper. E-mail is vastly superior; ensures that everyone has a...

All the CDS needs to do is fire one obstinate three star, and folks'll get with the program soon enough.

Sure, because Germany didn't see Russia as a threat to themselves. Perhaps a threat to overall regional stability or peace, but not an existential threat. Did they just get lucky in that regard? I would argue no. Even the worst case scenario, back when we still thought Russia was big strong...

Consider Germany? Actually assess the threat to Germany. Is Russia going to sweep thru Poland and invade Germany (obviously Belarus would let them pass)? No. They can't even take Ukraine, and that's right next door. Germany's not quite as isolated as we are from any current threats, but...

Supply problems should also be strongly tackled by governments directly: build low income housing.

I'm firmly convinced that Japan has zoning right; it's jurisdiction of the federal government, not the municipalities. having everything local hands way too much power to the NIMBYs.

Nonsense. You don't need equities to survive. You need housing to survive. Driving up the cost of it only benefits those who already own it. It hurts literally everyone else.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Does the public ignore military matters because the media doesn't cover it and politicians don't campaign on it, or do the media and the politicians not focus on it because the public doesn't care? I would argue the latter. And honestly, I can't blame...

Let's not encourage treating housing as a vehicle for investment speculation. Driving up the average cost of housing lowers our collective quality of life.