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When NCOs avoid their responsibility to advocate upward for their soldiers

Our NCO corps says we're all about taking care of soldiers but when it comes to actually standing up to officers who make bad decisions that hurt our people, we just complain to each other instead of pushing back up the chain. We've created this culture where we vent horizontally but never challenge vertically and I'm tired of pretending that's leadership.

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You and your peers gripe among yourselves but never actually stand up to the bosses making bad calls.

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