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Offline rangerrebew

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Army secretary to soldiers: help get ‘human stupidity’ out of the way
« on: October 16, 2025, 11:13:17 am »
Army secretary to soldiers: help get ‘human stupidity’ out of the way
By Karen Jowers
 Oct 15, 2025, 02:54 PM
 
U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll encouraged soldiers and families to help the Army get “human stupidity” out of the way to improve life on installations.

“We and you and soldiers and families can fix almost everything,” Driscoll said Tuesday during a forum on military families at the annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army.


“We just have to get human stupidity out of the way. You will be the ones to help us do that. You will be the ones on your bases and your communities pushing every single day to improve the foxhole. And we will try to do that, too.”

In a session that lasted over an hour, Driscoll, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George and Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Weimer said they were working to improve quality-of-life measures for soldiers and their families. The improvements could help soldiers and military families focus on their physical and mental wellbeing, as well as help soldiers rest and recover from their primary mission of training to fight, they said.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2025/10/15/army-secretary-to-soldiers-help-get-human-stupidity-out-of-the-way/
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Re: Army secretary to soldiers: help get ‘human stupidity’ out of the way
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2025, 11:14:54 am »
It's not "human stupidity" that's the problem in the Army but "institutional stupidity."
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Re: Army secretary to soldiers: help get ‘human stupidity’ out of the way
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2025, 11:31:01 am »
Where's the disciplinary actions for the officers that allowed soldiers' barracks to fall into states of disrepair and unhabitability?

Not punishing bad behavior or bad results is a passive-aggressive way of rewarding non-performance.

To avoid confrontation and lawsuits, many organizations avoid conflict in personnel matters which can take the form of 'F-up, Move up' or a 'promotion' to a positition in the organization where that person can do less damage.

Also, firing people would reflect poorly on the persons that hired or promoted the flunkie.

Nobody gets fired anymore.  There seem to be fewer consequences for malfeasance and incompetence for persons above a certain rank or station.

These could go a long way towards explaining why today's elites are so damn dumb and the organizations they lead are ineffective.


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