Sep 20, 2026 · 1 hr 51 min · 27 segments
Primary & Secondary ModCast 78 — Part 2 Recorded December 4, 2016 In Part 2, the panel continues its wide-ranging discussion with a closer look at military culture, leadership, institutional…
Matt MeckleyPanelist
Matt LandfairHost
Chuck PressburgPanelist
Can you leverage that to, you know, you've had some issues in the past, but do you think you'll be able to pick up seven with the way the Army is right now?
I mean, that shit, dude, like I don't – it's not EO or anything, but I don't think so.
It seems odd, though, that they would put you in a billet that is generally reserved for people they – in the Army's twisted way of logic, it's like reserved for people they – you know, either drill or recruiting or something like that, where they're like, we want him to continue his career, so we're putting him in a position that is going to enhance his long-term because it's rounding him out as an NCO, I guess, even though I don't see it that way necessarily with recruiting.
To then, like, basically say, nope, nope, guy's never going to make seven fucking, you know, he's fucked.
So, I mean, like, the thing with that was, you know, like, I mean, like, when I got, like, initially, like, fucking, they tried to hammer me for it, you know, like, they didn't have...
And then I had like 30 people against it, but it was, it was in 2013, the height of the, Oh, well fucking, you know, sexual assault, this EO that, and you know, nobody was fucking training in the fucking army height of sequesterization.
And no leader would touch that with a 10 foot pole, you know? And I don't have anything EO or sharp in my file because it was all bullshit.
But they were just like, oh, prejudicial to good order and whatever the fuck, even though I had, you know, like captains, majors coming in to speak for me and letters from God knows who what.
okay, so there is a restricted part of your OMPF, and when they go look for boards, the board can look into the restricted part of your OMPF.
That is different than getting a GOMAR and having that GOMAR placed in your restricted file.
Can you leverage that to, you know, you've had some issues in the past, but do you think you'll be able to pick up seven with the way the Army is right now?
I mean, that shit, dude, like I don't – it's not EO or anything, but I don't think so.
It seems odd, though, that they would put you in a billet that is generally reserved for people they – in the Army's twisted way of logic, it's like reserved for people they – you know, either drill or recruiting or something like that, where they're like, we want him to continue his career, so we're putting him in a position that is going to enhance his long-term because it's rounding him out as an NCO, I guess, even though I don't see it that way necessarily with recruiting.
To then, like, basically say, nope, nope, guy's never going to make seven fucking, you know, he's fucked.
So, I mean, like, the thing with that was, you know, like, I mean, like, when I got, like, initially, like, fucking, they tried to hammer me for it, you know, like, they didn't have...
And then I had like 30 people against it, but it was, it was in 2013, the height of the, Oh, well fucking, you know, sexual assault, this EO that, and you know, nobody was fucking training in the fucking army height of sequesterization.
And no leader would touch that with a 10 foot pole, you know? And I don't have anything EO or sharp in my file because it was all bullshit.
But they were just like, oh, prejudicial to good order and whatever the fuck, even though I had, you know, like captains, majors coming in to speak for me and letters from God knows who what.
okay, so there is a restricted part of your OMPF, and when they go look for boards, the board can look into the restricted part of your OMPF.
That is different than getting a GOMAR and having that GOMAR placed in your restricted file.
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