Sunday, July 09, 2023

Something is going horribly wrong at 11th Airborne via Reddit.

 I don't know if this is legit or not but I follow the Army and Marine Corps Reddit just cause so many Soldiers and Marines post on there.  Hopefully the Officer class will stay the fuck away.  This ain't for them.  Anyway I ran across this cry for help this morning and something is terribly wrong at 11th Airborne.  So bad that this Soldier is gonna post an anonymous  note to the fucking Commanding General to get aid.

via Reddit

Morale in the toilet and I need helpful ideas.

We are on 6 day work weeks, soldiers on gate guard are getting fucked out of the full time of block leave, we just had a soldier commit suicide two weeks ago, a soldier killed their wife after she reached out to the chain of command for help to escape the abuse, next month is team / squad / platoon / company FTX’s back to back and E3B participation is mandatory. I have soldiers who are going to roll right out of E3B train up / testing / proctoring later this month and into gate guard.

We had NO safety stand downs for the suicide or the murder, my soldiers are hanging on by a thread. I’m witnessing platoon sergeants just barely making it through a day, PL’s are in full blown “objective: survive” mode, my 1SGT recently assumed his position and is just trying to make sure we, his subordinates, live to see another sunrise. My CO is just flying by the seat of his pants it seems trying to make it out of life alive.

I need some genuine help here gang.

Taking any and all recommendations. Local IG has proven time and time again to be utterly useless. I’m a team leader and I just try to get my guys to come over once a week for a BBQ and lawn games like cornhole or whatever for some decompression but that can only do so much. I’m on my way out with a med board and I just want to make sure my soldiers don’t make a drastic decision that they can’t take back. And all of the above issues have happened in less than 30 days and prior issues not even listed beyond that.

I’ll order just a water, I haven’t slept much and need to stay hydrated.

Edit: I also forgot to mention we have been on QRF for the last year.

Edit 2: after some urging I have tweeted anonymously for help to General Eifler. Here’s hoping we can get some kind of help up here. The soldiers are just beat down.

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