More Discipline, Less Bleeding: General Defends Controversial New Policy

[rangerrebew]

More Discipline, Less Bleeding: General Defends Controversial New Policy
 
19 Apr 2019
Military.com | By Hope Hodge Seck

On Maj. Gen. David Furness' last combat deployment to Afghanistan as commander of the Marines' Regimental Combat Team 1 in 2010, the unit sustained 31 casualties. Nineteen of those, he says, were "the fault of the Marine either doing something he was told not to do and trained not to do or not doing something he was trained to do."

Now the commander of 2nd Marine Division out of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Furness appeared as a guest on the internet-based All-Marine Radio Friday to discuss a controversial new policy letter he wrote in an effort to curtail a trend he observed of sloppy, undisciplined Marines in the division.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/04/19/more-discipline-less-bleeding-general-defends-controversial-new-policy.html

[SZonian]

It's not just Marines, this applies to all branches.

It's the "small $h!t" that matters.  Because if you can pay attention to even the smallest detail, you can typically handle the big ones.

That is why we folded our tees and underwear into 6 inch squares with hangars 2 inches apart, etc. 

If you can't do that correctly, why should I hand you a toolbox and have you go work on a $100M airplane?


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