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I understand WHY people compare losing a piece of equipment and the importance of Fort Hoodâs effort on finding Vanessa Guillen. But its problematic for me. It should be more. Hereâs why.
Consider the efforts we employ when deployed to maintain out soldiers safety. So much so that if a soldier is unaccounted for, but not confirmed dead or captured we call a âDUSTWUNâ. While none of that exists in the US consider this context.
In a denied environment while abroad we shut every effort down and turn our efforts towards the recovery of that ONE soldier.
Now, while in the US we treat it with far less emphasis, and effort? ESPECIALLY when we have the means to engage with authorities...
Now, while in the US we treat it with far less emphasis, and effort? ESPECIALLY when we have the means to engage with authorities...
It breaks my heart to see that given the inordinate amounts of command authority at Hood, efforts seemed to be lack luster in the efforts to recover this young lady.
For Hood has a problem. To be honest every base has a problem. The issue is we have injected our leaders into block checking micromanagment. We owe the people we lead more than the effort we gave Vanessa.
I canât imagine the daily fear some of our service members live under when faces with circumstances like this. For those who do, you have people amongst your ranks that will listen, that want to help, and will do everything under their capacity to help and protect you.
