I guess I've never understood the level of angst or amount of distraction many of you claim all the various GMT requirements create. I've been doing the same silly NKO courses the rest of you have, and frankly they don't even register on my list of 100 things I give a shit about every day, and they have never once interfered with my ability to fly or do my ground job.
I get it, they aren't fun and nobody likes them, but if you're spending more than .01% of your time at work doing GMT or other periodic mando training, you're doing it wrong. What am I missing?
It's the idea from higher that:
1. I need a fucking sweater vest moron to tell me to not fax myself classified documents.
2. Their CYA knee-jerk reaction to whatever the .1% of us that are retarded did (that they probably would have done anyways, even if we tattooed 'don't do dumb shit' backwards on their face) is more important than not wasting the other 99.9%s time.
3. Even if each of those GMTs cost $1 to produce, which they don't, thats $1 our Navy didn't spend on parts, planes, or people. In light of our current financial situation, we can't afford to waste money on ineffective training OR have people (our most valuable asset, as every flag has ever assured me) sitting on their asses instead of turning wrenches or flying planes.
One more in a long list of facepalms courtesy of out of touch flags more focused on their post-Navy gig and not getting fired than on leading a fighting force.
Sometimes, you might have to take a tongue lashing from a bitchy Californian Senator, swallow your pride and say 'yes. one of my Sailors screwed up...however, the other 399,999 are doing a pretty kickass job with less and less resources.'
