As you know, the principles and traits of Leadership are taught, then reinforced, at every level of NCOES. It is a part of you as a true NCO. If it isn’t you are just posing. In my day the NCOER commented on the professional and personal courage of the rated NCO. The first section of evaluation was Leadership. He showed his true colors, and both of those portions of his last report should have reflected his failure.
You never know if you will be drawn to the sound of the guns, or soil yourself and run, until placed in the situation. The soldiers of the battalion he abandoned, and the true CSM that replaced him, went toward the guns. He can never say that.
I don’t get how that Walz guy can’t even offer a perfunctory “our prayers are with the family’s of the dead and I want to encourage my running mate and President Biden to work tirelessly to bring the remaining hostages home”.
I had the honor of working with a Reserve Battalion, as their Active Duty detailed Operations Sergeant… That reserve or National Guard soldier gives up a weekend a month, and two weeks a year, time taken from family and free time, to train and serve. I found most of them to be highly motivated, with many being prior active service. They wanted that weekend to be real. And they knew that the phone could ring at anytime and they would be activated. He just dishonors them even more.
He isn’t a leader, he is the worst type of politician, measuring everything he says to make his target audience happy, rather than speaking hard truths, from a place of conviction.
I think the Harris campaign took a page from the Biden playbook when it picked Walz.
We’ve all seen and heard and even discussed Vice President Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s security blanket. She sucked at the whole Veep thing. Was considered the most unpopular Vice President in history, (before she became this great leader we are now hearing about who apparently has done a flip flop on everything she stood for prior to becoming the Democrat nominee).
She wanted that same “my Veep really sucks” quality in Tim Walz…maybe that’s why she skipped Shapiro.
Not the only difference. Trump did not lie about being a combat vet. Your nitwit did. Then he lied again by claiming he made a grammatical error. There was nothing wrong with his grammar. I’m guessing that since Walz is your boy, you couldn’t care less about is character flaws. Would that be a correct assumption?
And a murder under international law of the most vile. A non-combatant, intentionally targeted in a militant attack, taken prisoner as a hostage, then killed in captivity to prevent his release/rescue.