What NCOs have noticed about Officers
- It's more important to look good than to be good.
- Non-matching furniture is a show-stopper. Untrained troops are not a show-stopper.
- A unit that has no money for new computers or spare parts will still manage
to afford a big-screen TV for Powerpoint slide shows.
- A bad plan with good slides is better than a good plan with bad slides.
- Three sergeants thinking about an issue dealing with their MOS for four
months and coming up with a detailed plan, is not as good as a colonel who
knows nothing about their MOS or the problem thinking about it for 30 seconds.
- When you achieve high rank, the difference between what you know and what
you feel fades away.
- The schools officers go to aren't any better than the schools NCOs go to.
But an NCO who goes to the ANCOC that deals with his MOS knows he's not necessarily
smarter about his MOS; an Army officer who goes to an Air Force graduate school
or a Joint College thinks he now knows more about the branch he's been away
from for two years.
- A year's hard work by the troops can be destroyed because of some minor
incident that happened to the Colonel when he was a lieutenant.
- Officers sit around thinking a lot. In a vacuum. This is not a good thing.
- Officers think they're businessmen. They think the principles used in business,
like "corporate vision" and "TQM" can work in the Army.
This is because officers spend a lot of time trying to sell things, usually
grand ideas and catchy names.
- Officers believe that a plan won't succeed unless it has a good name, like
"Operation Intrinsic Action." NCOs would rather give it something
simple, like "Operation Beat Their ******* Heads In 5," and get
on with it.
- Officers really do believe that a soldier is happier when he's busy, even
if he's not doing what's important. NCOs know that nothing is so useless as
doing well something which should not be done at all.
- There are a lot of officers out there who would have been better as NCOs,
and a lot of NCOs who would have been better as officers.
- NCOs NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES refer to other soldiers as "customers."
- Creating a twenty-minute slide show that makes the commander look good will
get you the same medal as working your ass off for 12 months for the same
commander.
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