Originally Posted by
Klondike Bear
Unfortunately nowadays, most of the people in leadership positions in the Air Force are there because they worked harder at brown nosing than everybody else. The Guard and the reserves are a lot better, but even in the Guard they sometimes promote the yes man over the better officer. The really good leaders get fed up and leave. I have not seen this issue with the leadership at Delta but it seems to happen with ALPA to a lesser scale.
That's funny...I thought my career was finished at least a dozen times after speaking truth to generals or WG/CCs! I later learned that some that I argued with in public were the very ones who pushed my career much farther than I ever intended and put me into multiple leadership positions. They craved the feedback and dialectic nobody else was ballsey enough to give. You just had to make dang sure you were right before you opened your mouth.