Originally Posted by
orca
We always pat someone on the back for having sorted stuff out, made savings, got the depth maintenance working etc etc without then going after the incompetent half-wits who presided over the broken system that we have now fixed.
Very profound and a view I have always held.
One, a CS, used to work at the AirSec's department in Adastral House. His job was to process 1369s and 1020 reports. The latter was an aspect he did not like and which worried him. Some 1369s worried him too.
Eventually, when he retired, they discovered in his office lots of reports and indeed whole files, behind cupboards and filing cabinets etc. This explained why some individuals had gone 2 and even 3 tours at some places; they had dropped completely off the radar.
To counter Tuc's arguement, where an SO has behaved in an incompetent or vindictive manner, their nature is often discovered later on and they are then often sidelined or better have their fortune read.
What was never done was to review any 1369s etc by that individual. I was shafted early by an elderly but newly arrived sqn cdr. Subsequently he was posted to a staff job at Epi and short toured by the gp capt. Next up the idiot tree was a right tartar who it turned out was suffering from a brain tumour. In those days the 1369 was confidential and debriefs rarely given; there was no redress.