Smart phones create dumb people. Can't say for sure, but based on his current attitude & demeanor, I'd bet that Hegseth was considered a toxic leader by most (all?) of his subordinates.
Old news but I remember many Viet Nam war vets saying officers would come in with very little knowledge of the situation (and therefore a danger to the men he commanded), stay only long enough to have their position qualify them for a promotion and a new rotating officer would come in with same lack of knowledge - always leaving the troops' survival in the hands of someone who might give orders that did not take realities and subtle complexities into consideration. One who told me this was a savvy US African American soldier who would get his white brothers to pay him to go into the nearest town to get stuff they wanted - because he knew the VC understood the plight of 1960s black Americans so wouldn't shoot him
Smart phones create dumb people. Can't say for sure, but based on his current attitude & demeanor, I'd bet that Hegseth was considered a toxic leader by most (all?) of his subordinates.
Old news but I remember many Viet Nam war vets saying officers would come in with very little knowledge of the situation (and therefore a danger to the men he commanded), stay only long enough to have their position qualify them for a promotion and a new rotating officer would come in with same lack of knowledge - always leaving the troops' survival in the hands of someone who might give orders that did not take realities and subtle complexities into consideration. One who told me this was a savvy US African American soldier who would get his white brothers to pay him to go into the nearest town to get stuff they wanted - because he knew the VC understood the plight of 1960s black Americans so wouldn't shoot him