has anyone ever met a screwup officer? i been in the Corps 3 years and i never met an officer who was a.......

Question

screwup. they all seem to have their sh!_t together. maybe i just been under a rock! lol

Answer 1

Coasty, here I was on one of the high endurance cutters and we had one real Charlie Foxtrot. This guy finished dead last at the academy and the stashed him on our ship because we were under weigh so much. This kept him out of sight until they could stuff him in the inactive reserves. They did that with a lot of the deckhands too. 1st year 305 days at sea, 2nd year 298 days at sea, 3rd year 301 days at sea, 4th year 201 days at sea due to major yard time. The rest of our officers were darn good!

Answer 2

I knew one. He commanded a battalion in Vietnam which had nearly 70% killed and wounded on the casualty count. Despite that, he was given the job of National Security Advisor by President Ronald Wilson Reagan, after his retirement from the Corps. He is Lieutenant Colonel Robert McFarlane, United States Marine Corps (Retired).
Believe it or not, some of them are more worthless than a rusty entrenching tool. Semper Fi!

Answer 3

I was in the Marines from 1981 until 1994.
In that time I met 1 complete idiot who was an officer. His actions and orders nearly got myself and 2 of my subordinate troops wrote up. It is not necessary to play out all the details of what he ordered me to do and when I followed (What I thought was) a legitimate order from a superior to accomplish a task, I was told later the following day that it was not only "not" authorized, but that it was not even an order that was given to him to accomplish as he had told us at the time. Needless to say when it was all worked out that officer was transferred to a desk job, and I was cleared. My superiors also separated us to keep me from following through with a very nasty accident (to the officer). I didn't see that officer again for almost 5 months. and when I finally saw him again it was across a hangar and with to many witnesses to accomplish any (well deserved) damage... Oh well we cant have every thing...

Answer 4

I would like to think I wasn't a screw up...but what I think really isn't the question....it is what my troops thought. I had a standing policy that if any of my men didn't like my decision and wanted to challenge it or me....we would go to the gym...strip off the rank and put on the gloves. The winner was right...the other was wrong. I was challenged 4 times in 8 years and was beaten 1 time. The time I was beaten... the troop told me he really didn't disagree with me.... just wanted to see if he could whip me...and he did...quite well.

It doesn't matter if you are enlisted, staff NCO ( PO), Warrant officer, or commissioned officer...screw ups exist everywhere.

Semper Fi,
Z
Capt USMC Ret

Answer 5

I think you've been under a rock. I know a lot of Officers who have screwed up more than once.

Answer 6

I know a couple...1 thought the UCMJ was to live by, no bending...So a couple of guys tried to kill him....

Another, asked a soldier to show him how to load & shoot a M203..and the grenaded landed in the DMZ...and the Spc got busted for it...not the officer who told him to show him...

Another for not caring for his troops during a blizzard and got 5 cases of frostbite...Finally he got relieved in place and we got shipped back to the barracks to warm back up...

Answer 7

Vietnam. We had a captain who was responsable for the higest degree of casualties in any of the groups. They sent him to the rear - and even there he was an asshole

Answer 8

Did you ask this question so other folks from the other branches will say they had screw up officers, then you would say "you see the other branches have screw up officers, semper fi!"