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This exactly. Until the military can adopt the idea that rooting out bad behavior is more of a career booster than presiding over bad behavior is a detriment (which incentivizes leaders to cover it up) nothing will change. https://twitter.com/terrancesavery/status/1336709863926337538
This has plagued me the entire time I've written about the military. I still cannot understand why you wouldn't want to make a big splash about taking the trash out. Only the Navy, by my count, has ever approached that level of accountability, and I'm talking a C- rating.
Why would you minimize and obscure the bad shit that goes on in your unit when you could reject it and distance your organization from it by prosecuting it to the fullest extent?
This fear that your rater is going to go, "Well, there was a rapist and the commander pushed for charges and the rapist went to prison -- but that there was a rapist at all means this leader is bad" is such an ass backwards way of looking at the world.
This feels like a great time to mention that I wrote about a white supremacist who advocated the slaughter of his chain of command, and the Army won't tell me how they dealt with him because "privacy."
