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Originally Posted by Nyororin
I`m curious - I have no military experience and know pretty much nothing about how discipline is carried out.
Let us assume that someone is excellent and nearly flawless in taking care of their responsibilities... But a terrible person with an awful personality. At what point does their personality and related actions overtake their great record in performance?
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You hit the nail on the head. Basically, until someone reports it. And the reporting system we have now is broken. This is one of the major arguments among SWOs generated by CAPT Graf. Seniors evaluate you, never juniors. So Rear Admiral Soandso gives CAPT Graf orders, she uses improper tactics to "motivate" her crew. Her crew does the job, but Rear Admiral is not on her ship and doesn't know anything beyond the job got done. He gives her good evals. Part of the job of the junior officer is keeping the issues of the enlisted from getting to the senior officers. The department heads are in charge of the division officers, the JOs. Department heads report to the XO. At each level, the goal is to solve problems at your level, and the next level up need not know the details. Unless everything is jacked up and someone gets on the hotline to the commodore or rear admiral and says, "Hey, CAPT KillingMorale is doing X and Y, and it's inappropriate" evals will not reflect it. And many JOs are too scared of pissing off the people who write THEIR evals, and can direct THEIR career, to complain. So instead they wait it out, and the good evals for the morale killing officer remain happy and nice and positive.
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I am wondering if perhaps the reassignment instead of dismissal is based on something like this? Clearly they were doing something right to have been continually promoted into positions of authority... And the article you linked to points out that it wasn`t a case of being godfathered in.
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Her sister is a rear admiral, her brother-in-law is a rear admiral, her entire family is connected to the Navy. No one is buying the official line that it isn't nepotism.
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Have their been other similar cases? If so, what sort of action was taken then?
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A few. None recently. None within my personal memory. I can't remember when CAPT Arnheiter was dismissed for similar. Perhaps 50 years ago? Google checking... 1967.
The Navy: The Arnheiter Incident - TIME