Tweet of the Day: Who Thought This Was A Good Idea?

LOR in official personal file, BCD is overreach.

Setnaffa – a BCD will likely be reversed on appeal in the near future, the LOR less likely to be reversed and will be sitting there nice and fresh for the next promotion board. Either way, she will likely be occupying the right seat in the civilian world soon.

I think this was taken from another website (identity theft, of sorts).
That said, I also think the DOD needs to change its policy on social media posting for military. She and her husband both fashion themselves as “influencers” (he has over 2 million followers). It’s just asking for trouble. The military currently sort of perpetuates this via PA people. They want you to “tell the military story” on the one hand, then are surprised when it undermines security.

He played guitar in a band at Osan at the time. The name of the band was the “Bulging Johnsons”. Some general’s wife was offended when she found out what that meant. So they changed the name of the band to “Zero Tolerance”. He got an LOR for playing in a band with that name.

DOD is so hard up for personel that it has resorted to using sex appeal to drive recruitment. In the link attached, you’ll see just one of many active duty influencers who has (had) tacit command approval.

https://youtube.com/shorts/AYHv87lF3RQ?si=Yo15FAnZ6091Uit9

This isn’t a problem of just individuals, this is a command problem, and uppon closer observation in the twitter linked videos, you’d see it wasn’t just the female officer recording. There is a great deal of laxity in current day military when it comes to having phones during training, it shouldn’t be a supprise when footage pops up, especially when it seems like the DOD is promoting social media influencer behaviors.

So before smacking any lowly enlisted or junior officers with LORs, Hegseth should really take a look at the higher ups who appear to have condoned if not out right promoted such behaviors in the past.

I know a former squadron commander who was fired (years back) for participating in an aviation blog. His bosses were not only aware of it, they encouraged him and told him he was doing a great job. Until someone saw his posts and reported it, then it was suspected to be an OPSEC violation (investigation determined there was no violation but the damage had been done after he was fired for “loss of confidence”). His bosses of course denied any tacit approval.