Best Defense rules for military leadership
No. 23: Don’t spank your subordinate officers. It is just a bad idea. Meanwhile, “BN Runner,” a smart reader and commenter, asks how this woman (who was just suspended as commandant of the drill sergeants’ school at Fort Jackson, S.C., not clear why) could be a command sergeant major in today’s Army and never have ...
No. 23: Don't spank your subordinate officers. It is just a bad idea.
Meanwhile, "BN Runner," a smart reader and commenter, asks how this woman (who was just suspended as commandant of the drill sergeants' school at Fort Jackson, S.C., not clear why) could be a command sergeant major in today's Army and never have deployed?
No. 23: Don’t spank your subordinate officers. It is just a bad idea.
Meanwhile, “BN Runner,” a smart reader and commenter, asks how this woman (who was just suspended as commandant of the drill sergeants’ school at Fort Jackson, S.C., not clear why) could be a command sergeant major in today’s Army and never have deployed?
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