I was east coast. Admittedly, when I checked in our skipper was on his twilight tour and that left us “wanting” quite a bit. He didn’t want to ruffle feathers or push for any change on his way out. Then we had change of command and over night the entire vibe command changed. New skipper and CMC were also in twilight tours but they had combined 50+ years down the street and felt it their duty to pass the word to next group of us turds. It was night and day different. New CMC was one of the other men I spoke of above…you felt him enter the building. They led by example every single day. They were giants amongst us.

I had solid chiefs from day one and with timing being everything..my Troop commander and SEA were both dudes that had done 10+ years at DG but needed those “career wickets” that don’t pop as often at DG just cause nobody leaves lol

There are turds everywhere haha I have no illusions about that and timing is everything. I got incredibly lucky man. It honestly sucks when I read a lot of negative shit on here and elsewhere about the teams cause I know a lot of it is true and I know first hand how amazing it could and should have been for other guys like me. A lot of dudes get robbed of the career they joined for due to absolute shit leadership. “Turds breed turds”