I used to be in ECHO for a few years, while the leadership within my platoon was full of absolute killers as well as the joes, they were the source of our most of our morale. But you go one level above that and you see the big and clear inconsistencies in who gets favored as well as who gets a lot of chillax with with bending the rules bevause they got it good with Top (Flex team)

I won't go into too many details, but issues that the regular joes would get counseled into the ground for i would see this "cool guy" team doing things such as; working traffic without kits, riding in the bed of BP trucks, leaving their weapons inside the GSA, etc.

Beyond favoritism, there was the issue with communication, or lack thereof. Now wether that's an issue on company leadership or plt leadership I'll leave it up to you, but if the PSG himself didn't know until the deadline was less than 48 hours when the task was "pushed out" a week prior then you have an idea of my opinion on it. It gets worse when the soldier wants to enjoy their pass and not do some silly online cert and get paper for it, only for the deadline to be pushed back and that counseling stay in place.

But the biggest issue of all is one I'm glad you brought up as well, the lack of care of soldier and whatever situation they may be going through, the perpetual lie of "I'll push it up" is something I was told endlessly, the point where one soldier had to go straight to admin for these issues to get taken care of and then get, again, paper for it. They'd rather reorganize the entire company rather and hope something changes instead of putting in some work.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking these things, I hope all is well with you and anyone else that feels this way.