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I know you quit regularly blogging in favor of real work, but could you elaborate a little? Does this book compare to Generation Kill?

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I thought the blog was pretty good content-wise, notwithstanding its stylistic tics. However, the post that ultimately got him shut down, the whine-fest about being promoted to XO really rubbed me the wrong way. It seems incredibly myopic and arrogant for him to believe he was so indispensable to his platoon. Seems to me that his PSG, equipped with at least a decade of experience as an 11B (as well as the training he presumably obtained at BNCOC and ANCOC) was fully capable of taking up whatever slack was incurred by replacing a 1LT with a butter-bar. Even more generally, it seems to me that an LT isn't put in a PL billet for whatever value he brings to the table on account of his 4-year degree and completion of OBC. Rather, I always thought that the PL job was primarily on-the-job training to prepare officers for the work they do as CO's, XO's, and staff. The Army needed Gallagher elsewhere. To refuse was nothing less than petulant. If he wanted a life on the line, he should have enlisted.

Maybe my reading was colored by my experience as a former NCO, who had a shitty PL (though I don't have any beef with officers per se). Any officers want to offer a different perspective? I recognize that many of you probably found your PL years the most enjoyable, but do you really think you brought much to the platoon that an E-7 couldn't provide? Am I off-base in characterizing it as nothing more than on-the-job training?

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COE? Don't remember that acronym...Engineers? I don't suppose you'd be willing to elaborate on how a good PL makes a difference? What tasks exactly? My experience was downrange, and maybe my PL was doing useful things I didn't see, but I'm not convinced.

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I can think of many tasks that my PL was doing or supposed to be doing (some of which I did for him). What I can't think of are any tasks that he was doing or supposed to be doing that my PSG couldn't do or didn't sometimes do. That is to say, I can't think of anything he did that "made a world of difference." Which is precisely what I asked you to elaborate on. Again, I didn't ask what a PL does. I asked what a good PL does that makes a world of difference.

Look, guy, I don't know that much about what happens in the officer corps, I was a jr. NCO. I'm asking you to enlighten me. I was an E-5, served for only 2.5 years. Notably, I did my job well enough to get promoted that quickly. Forgive me for not knowing a frackin' acronym; lord knows there are a million of them, and new ones crop up all the time. Also, COE was probably a bit above my pay grade.

You've given me a conclusory statement and an ad hominem attack. If you can't elaborate beyond that, I don't know what to tell you. I've known good officers and I've known poor ones. Your defensive and personal response doesn't convince me you belong in the former category. Doesn't mean you belong in the latter, but I think a good officer would welcome the opportunity to educate a (former) young NCO as to the proper role of the officer corps.

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