Quote Originally Posted by theundeadhero
You all act like this is Vietnam and soldiers are faced with these choices everyday. It's not! The odds of an order like that coming down is like, once in a lifetime. I have never had an order I even had to think twice about, and thats not saying I follow blindly. When it comes time to shoot, you shoot. There's no official order needed. Early this morning I was on motor pool gaurd. A mortar round came down in the motor pool across the street and hit a tank. It caught on fire and the rounds inside it started to cook off. Did I need any order to do anything? NO, you already know what to do and you instantly react to any given situation. The ROE and such stuff is there so you know what to do when the situation comes up. When it's there, no official leadership is telling everyone what to do. Where not video game characters that just stand there and wait to get told anything. The leadership is there to make sure we do the right thing and not break the rules.

Well i guess its because im Air Force, we are going to recieve a different system of instruction. Theres not gonna be any "Oh sh*+ act!", Decisions for me. And ur right i dont expect to recieve any of those kind of orders, but those soldiers at the Iraqi prison did, or do u think it was just something to do for them.

Ur definition of leadership is hazy though, leadership is there to LEAD, to tell someone when they dont know which way to jump or how high, making sure someone doesnt break the rules is just another part of leading.