Your Experiences With "Toxic Leaders"

I wanna hear that story, PM if'n ya have to.

Not familiar with "The Hurricane" I have to say. Shoot me a PM when you have time brother.

These are words to live by. 1000% agree!

I once had an NCO who came from a different command take over my shop when I was a bootski. He was knowledgeable in little and displayed poor leadership traits*.

Poor leadership traits:
1.) When he was learning his "new job" after transferring from a different command/job description, instead of getting his hands dirty with some on-the-job training--he said he "didn't need to do the work because he is a Sergeant".
2.) Frequently put himself before his troops. Once while we worked well past 2200 (expected to be at formation at 0500 the next morning,) without chow he went and ate some chow at home. Another Sergeant hooked us up with some chow after finding out he had ditched us. Poor leader returned some time later and attempted to yell at us for eating instead of working.
3.) Poor leader charged an NCO beneath him for doing something against regulation that he had done himself not even a month prior.
4.) Poor leader took me to the Gunny when I challenged his authority instead of handling me himself like any NCO with a backbone would.

That's just the stuff off the top of my head. But yeah--I definitely learned how to not be a leader from that soup sandwich.

I have a list somewhere.

Hey Digrar do you know the story of the Officer from 3RAR at Butterworth who was sent home within 24hrs or some such?

I don't think we have as much a problem as the Navy has. They are averaging 1.37 major command reliefs over the past two years.

My soldiers have been using Army360. I can imagine a future in which NCOs continuously check their A-360 iPhone App throughout the day to see who has better (worse?) reviews...

"Shit, man, another joe burned me; says I don't develop him as a leader..."

One of BDE CDRs was mine. I got here two months after that happened, and it was still a huge deal. The entire BDE was retrained because of the incident.

We were doing a joint op with the Brits, everyone was staged and ready to go. We sit around for about 30 min. PAST go time, & finally Captain --- comes out, explaining that he was late because 1) he was downloading music to listen to on the op, and 2) he was in a bid war on eBay for a comic book action figure (he collects them). He later gets a Bronze Star for that deployment & promoted to Major. Needless to say, the Brits were not amused, & from then on did all mission planning with our 1st Lt.

http://www.military.com/news/article/navy-fires-17th-commanding-officer.html

Another one down in the Navy. This time over DUI.