Trump seems to have a problem with an awful lot of people. It's never his fault, it's his staff, Sessions, etc. etc.
Never his fault.
That's my biggest issue with most of those in leadership positions today. Very few take responsibility for their actions, except when the results are good.
Anyone here who has ever served as a platoon leader in the Army knows what I'm talking about. It was drilled to me from day one: everything my unit does or fails to do is my responsibility. I never truly understood it until I flunked my first tac eval, with a platoon that I was assigned to that first day.
The "fair" move would have been to give the tac eval to the platoon I had worked with for nearly four months. I had a great relationship with my platoon sergeant, and our four squad leaders were good. As we know, life doesn't work out that way.
We flunked because I didn't do a good enough job of leading that platoon. I caught hell for at least a month following that, but it was a lesson that never left me. Over the next 15 months, I would lead three platoons through ARTEPs, one whose squad leaders were "acting jacks", E-4s.
I really liked being in those leadership roles, not for the ego trip, but for challenges that made each day interesting. My attitude was, "if my neck's on the line, then stay out of my way and let me do my job." I wasn't belligerent about it: my style was favored by superiors who valued independence and imagination in their subordinates, not so much from the autocrats.
Sorry for the rant...my son's heard this message virtually ad infinitum for the past year. He's now the Senior Patrol Leader of his Boy Scout troop, and I've been augmenting the leadership training he gets from the adult leaders.
