A sketch by the lovely  F-R95 which pretty well catches the sentiment of the past numerous weeks/months.

I suppose part of it has been brought upon myself. I very strongly abide by my philosophy of "it is better to be honest than impressive," and when I was selected to lead an organization with a very large amount of issues, some of them quite long term, and have made a point to bring them to light to solve them. Ranging from a Soldier that they wrongly wanted to put out of the Army because there was a "Criminal Investigation Division" case open on him, but no one had bothered to read the 58 page case file and see that there was no evidence whatsoever and he had been wrongly accused, to material issues, such as missing equipment equipment, to include things of a sensitive nature, having gone missing months before I was in command but I am the first to point out. All this compounded by the complete lack of systems and programs within the organization that I had to build from the ground up, and a perception that the past leadership played favorites among people in the organization. A great deal of damage had been done to the organization due to the negligence and complacency of my peers, damage which I am now not only tasked to fix, but because the new senior commander knows nothing of the organizational history, problems I'm now being held responsible for.

And while great strides have been made to improve things in the Company, to solve the open issues (some two years old), to create systems and predictability so the Soldiers are able to plan their lives out and have time to spend with their families, to build an environment of dignity and respect throughout the organization (starting with me) to change the culture of the organization, to make it an organization any would proud to be a member of, it still doesn't stop. Weekly, or multiple times weekly I seem to disinter something that was wrong long before I was there, and bring attention to it and a proposed solution to it. But when brought up, it turns out it is something that is a massive emergency that requires immediate action, even though is many months old, from which I get blasted with patronizing things like "why is your organization all jacked up commander?" Or something of that nature.

I suppose once my time is done at the helm of this organization, I'll be able to look back with satisfaction at all the progress it has made, the growth of all the subordinates within, and take pride in not passing any of the problems that occurred under my watch, and were hidden, to the future commander. But damnit, I sure could use a reprieve of all this mess right now.

Please pardon the bit 'o rant, in some ways, a number of things that I post serve as an outlet to sentiment.

V/R,
Cap Mag.