So True
This is the funniest back-and-forth we've read here in a long time. It was made regarding the popularity contest currently underway where exempts get to vote on who the next exempts are going to be:
- Anonymous said...
I wonder if Gen.Patton asked for a vote when he made promotions?
The reply:
- If Patton was on CPD, he would have spent his entire career pushing a beat car.
Hilarious. And true.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
17 Comments:
Holy fucking shit! This is the most accurate comment I have ever read on this blog!
The PO's need a say in the vote. We are the ones who will either follow the leader, or laugh at the joke of the picked supervisor.
Gen Patton would be sharing a cell with Bill Cozzi, for doing what needed to be done.
There are mnay over qualified POs on this job. Many have served in combatin the GWOT or in top leadership positions in the Army and Marines. They are the real deal, unlike our "warrior" command staff who have just been to the 3 month everybody passes FBI Academy and the right Phone call. They have no clue as to how to lead.
When there is terrorism or a true disaster(NATO Conf) we shall see the true skills of our current leadership. It will read like the Valor of Ignorance by Homer Lea.
So true.
So true.
So given not earned.
Now that is hilarious and TRUE.
I might have peed a little!!!!!!!
Sorry, but I disagree. Patton would have been smarter than most of us and he would have left, started his own corporation and would have been wildly successful at whatever he undertook.
Just not here.
Dammit. I knew I should have signed my name. Now my 15 minutes of fame are being recognized anonymously LOL
If Patton was on CPD, he would have spent his entire career pushing a beat car.
Actually, no, Patton could be a very cunning political animal, an d had top social connections.
He was an energetic self-promoter, and could kiss superior ass and recite the the party line with the best of them. (He could also put his foot in it when he overdid his hard-charger attitude.)
His career included a lot of time and effort spent on things that were of no real military value, but got him favorable attention. For instance, he studied fencing in Europe, became the Army's "Master of the Sword", and designed a new cavalry saber.
Of course, he was a lot more than that - he was very able, and a real hard charger - and he used his political skills to promote new developments without openly challenging the "Old Guard". (Which was a good thing.)
If Patton was a CPD cop - he'd have social and political clout, be involved in ceremonies and other secondary activities that the brass like. He'd use his clout to get into some front-line unit, where he'd arrest or kill some serious bad guys and earn commendations for bravery. He'd get promoted to at least Lieutenant. He'd get himself in public trouble a few times with "excessive force" or "over-the-top" statements, but he'd stay on the right side of the brass.
Just A Civilian (who's read a lot of WW II history)
How bout commanders who go outside their unit to nominate? Who did Carouthers select pick? If it was someone in 7 they aren't admitting it.
HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I caught that--and snorted some lime Coke!
If Patton was on CPD, he would have spent his entire career pushing a beat car.
Actually, no, Patton could be a very cunning political animal, an d had top social connections.
He was an energetic self-promoter, and could kiss superior ass and recite the the party line with the best of them. (He could also put his foot in it when he overdid his hard-charger attitude.)
His career included a lot of time and effort spent on things that were of no real military value, but got him favorable attention. For instance, he studied fencing in Europe, became the Army's "Master of the Sword", and designed a new cavalry saber.
Of course, he was a lot more than that - he was very able, and a real hard charger - and he used his political skills to promote new developments without openly challenging the "Old Guard". (Which was a good thing.)
If Patton was a CPD cop - he'd have social and political clout, be involved in ceremonies and other secondary activities that the brass like. He'd use his clout to get into some front-line unit, where he'd arrest or kill some serious bad guys and earn commendations for bravery. He'd get promoted to at least Lieutenant. He'd get himself in public trouble a few times with "excessive force" or "over-the-top" statements, but he'd stay on the right side of the brass.
Just A Civilian (who's read a lot of WW II history)
8/25/2011 11:02:00 AM
The last line says it all. You're just a civilian that has no idea what the CPD is like. Unless Patton was born into CPD clout, he would be pushing a beat car, no matter how cunning, smart, or hard working he might have been.
It was so much easier when the
19th Ward was picking the exempts.
Gen. Patton WAS on the CPD, or at least Maurer THOUGHT he was Patton.
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