From Instapunit, we get this heartwarming tale of government incompetence. Clicking through the link, we get more details.
At the Revere Hotel in Boston, FBI agents and Army Special Ops units were about to conduct a "training exercise".
In the "exercise", they would go into a room and interrogate a "role player".
Yeah, I've played those games. Set up properly, they are really good training. But this one went sideways.
Instead, they went to the wrong room, where an unsuspecting airline pilot answered the door. They handcuffed him, threw him into the shower, and interrogated him for about an hour, before he was able to convince them he wasn't the "role player".
Oh, crap! They went into the wrong room and bounced a citizen. Presumably, the agents had badges and guns, Scared the crap out of some poor airline pilot. I'm sure that they apologized profusely and begged forgiveness. No?
They then told him that he could never speak about what had happened, and left.
Bad choice. Everyone knows he's going to talk about it. Groveling and pleading would have ben a better idea, but that didn't happen.
Here is what should happen: As to the FBI guys. Move then out of whatever special detail they were on and transfer them to some God-awful posting in middle America. Let them do white-collar crime until they reach retirement. Use then as object examples in ethics training.
As to the soldiers, those Spec-Ops guys, Reduce then one grade and transfer them back to the basic leg infantry. I dunno, maybe at Fort Riley. Or Leonard Wood. Maybe Knox. But never again in Special Operations. They can serve out their time in Big Army,
6 comments:
PawPaw,
Every military training exercise I planned or participated in had an observer/grader involved to capture lessons learned or mistakes make. Wouldn't/shouldn't the Feds have done the same? Wouldn't that person know the room number of the training site?
I think your recommendation is a little soft. Fire the lot, no pension, no back pay, no recommendation (indeed, a black mark in their record to prevent further law enforcement employment).
Oh, and were I involved in the pilot's impending lawsuit, I'd be ok with quite a few zeros at the end of a positive number. Taken directly from the FBI's operating budget of course.
Well, since his crew rest was violated, he has to advise his airline of why... :-) And I'd spread it far and wide!!! LOL
i'm thinking he should get to kick each of them in nuts...10 times...
You are assuming that it's the door kickers' fault - i.e., that they were given the correct room, and they went to the wrong one.
It's also possible that it was higher that screwed the pooch, gave them the wrong room, and the door kickers went exactly where they were told.
Oh, and Pawpaw, you might be biased because of where you're from, but for most Army types, Fort Polk is at or near the top of the list of undesirable postings.
You can make some pretty big mistakes and lesson learned, but trying to cover it up that way. Both FBI and Army should be fired. Shows a clear lack of integrity that is critical to both organizations.
I'm sure if they had apologized to the pilot and the airlines I'm pretty sure this would have blown over, good story, interesting experience.
Clearly the graders/drill monitors failed epically as well even setting this situation up.
pretty sure i would have kicked one of them in the balls before they all left...
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