In 2010, while I was the Divisional Commander in the Cascade Division, one of the officers in the Division sent the following to me. I'm confident that Major Jim Sloan was not pointing a finger at his DC ... or was he?
A young enlisted Marine was leaving the base headquarters' office at 15:45 when he found the Colonel-in-charge standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand.
"Listen," said the Colonel, "this is a very sensitive and important document, and my secretary is not here. Can you make this thing work?"
"Certainly," said the young Marine. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button.
"Excellent, excellent!" said the Colonel as his paper disappeared inside the machine, "I just need one copy."
Lesson: Never, ever assume that your leader knows what he's doing.
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