A disturbing picture is being painted of life in Marine Corps battalions, no longer do senior enlisted Marines scrutinize, account and inform Marines multiple times each day — that time tested system has been replace with text messaging to “get the word out.”
A consequence of any system like this is less interaction between junior leaders and junior enlisted Marines with that unit’s senior leaders which is never a good thing.
We’ll talk about it.
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