Originally Posted by
JKM4767
On the contrary, as a PL, I felt I had a better relationship with my fellow PLs than I ever could have imagined. Now, granted, many times it was "us against them" (field grades); banding together to urge higher command to use better tactics, implement smarter training and give more "rope" to LTs to get the mission done. I haven't seen much backstabbing to this point; more of a feeling of "hey this sucks, but we are going to get through it together". So much depends on the unit and it's climate. What I have seen after two Iraq tours is my peers drop from the Army faster than you could imagine...some battalions suffering 90% losses of combat arms Jr. CPTs, primarily because they don't believe in the ability or intentions of their field grade leaders; kind of a "these are the idiots that I will continue to work for?". For the most part, I have seen many junior officers band together, as opposed to "Massengalism". Just an observation from my very small foxhole.
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