The PowerPoint rant that got a colonel fired

[panthersix]

FUCK Him! I was looking at Major in the NC ARNG and it was nothing but a dick sucking position on staff doing powerpoints and writing op ords for retards that didn't even have a BA degree.

So I voted with my feet, resigned my commission and enlisted in the Air Guard for TACP....then the plan went to shit after I got a desk dropped on my foot on a furniture moving detail...but never the less, my point still stands....

Take the fucking brass off and ruck the fuck up if you're ass is so sore!

[Dan B 3/75]

So I voted with my feet

Best way to do it imo.

The rest of my comments would be more appropriate in the MOJO........

[rangertough]

So without being disrespectful to the rank I would simply say why think about yourself before the men? Why take the time to write a rant, when perhaps you could have used that time to come up with new ideas to change the process, the battle, tactics or the well-being of those underneath you?

I agree...to a point. The statement as written above sounds great and it would be. IF improvements could actually be made in a staff at that high a level. The rant to me was funny and truthful and if this cat wants to kill his career this way because he's sick and tired of seeing crap that no matter what he does will never change that's his call. I vote we call it "Doing a McChrystal" or "The McChrystal Maneuver".

Oh and before the obligatory "WTF do you know about working on staffs at this level." I have worked on Staff in Ops and/or Training at BN, BDE, DIV and I am currently working as a civilian on a Corps Staff. The GIF (Good Idea Fairie) walks the halls of this place but he only seems to whisper in the ears of senior Field Grades and GO's.

Most of the decisions made are either for some GO's comfort or in his name (when really he doesn't give a fuck) or thay are designed to make a Staff Officer look like he's doing something to justify a block on his OER.

Tough

[Jim]

I vote we call it "Doing a McChrystal" or "The McChrystal Maneuver".

Tough

Concure.

[cams]

Sure, this colonel called it exactly right, but as Lefty pointed out, this is 'how it is' and always has been, the technology only alters the appearance, not the substance. Might as well bitch about everything being painted green.

I wonder how long before he released that that this man knew that he isn't going to make brigadier?

Yep. tried that one. didn't go over so well.

[DangerClose]

Looks like there is a follow-up with him now...

http://www.militarytimes.com/news/2010/ ... h-092010w/

When he and the supervisor finally spoke to him about his concerns, the supervisor told Sellin that it was “clear that I was unhappy and that I should go home.”

Classic.

[The Holmchicken]

According to the Army Times report, he was a reserve officer who had permanent work for a defense contrator overseas. I want to say Belgium but I don't have the article in front of me. Whatever, to paraphrase what I read, he stated that he was activated for an important job. But when he got to the job, he realized the job was to arrange and modify presnetations to fit the commanders perception of the battlefield. He further stated that in his opinion, the presentations were meant to give the commanders the ground truth for them to make decisons. They were not meant to be altered to fit the commanders perception. That was the main basis of his rant, the misutilization of himself (and others I guess) and giving the commander what he wanted to hear, not the truth. At least that's what I got from the article.

As for him doing this as an O-6, maybe he felt that he was finally at that rank where he could actually influence/change something. Guess he was wrong. But we've all heard the speech: If you don't like what's going, make Sergeant Major and you can change stuff. That right there could lead me to designing my own website on the subject but whatever.

[Flesh Thorn]

When not on active duty, Sellin lives in Finland and does defense contracting work involving C4ISR technology — command, control, communications, computing, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. He has a doctoral degree in biophysics and Army branch qualifications in infantry, Special Forces and medical services.

[The Holmchicken]

When not on active duty, Sellin lives in Finland and does defense contracting work involving C4ISR technology — command, control, communications, computing, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. He has a doctoral degree in biophysics and Army branch qualifications in infantry, Special Forces and medical services.

That's the one. Dude's got a 15 pound brain.