Where Has All The Common Sense Gone?

I really enjoyed this posting at Scattered Stones about the death of common sense, here is a few examples of no common sense of things that have happened to me lately.

I have not felt like posting much lately. I don't know why, just haven't felt like it lately. Sorry. Anyway's the farp went ok. Could have gone better but the officers in charge of planning it did a poor job of that. Probably due to a lack of common sense. That is going to be the dominant theme in today's posting by the way. Common sense, or lack of. Anyway we would get out to the farp at 6:00 am and the weather would be nice with a clear sky. Clear of clouds and helicopters. By noon the clouds would roll over the mountains but not so bad that the pilots couldn't fly. But they didn't. As we say the Apache is a all weather aircraft with fair weather pilots. By mid afternoon it would be raining and we would go home at 6:00pm. A full day wasted. This went on for two weeks with the random aircraft coming in once in a while. However I did get a army achievement medal for being the best pad chief and working the hardest out on the farp so that kinda made up for some of the crap.

The next thing has to do with my recent status update on facebook. For those of you that didn't see it I posted that I hate my unit and company commander. There are a few reasons for this. The first happened a while back when we had to come in a mothers day Sunday to work because apparently we weren't working hard enough during the week and getting aircraft fixed but there was several other things leading to this that weren't our fault. We were doing the best we could with what the higher ups were giving us. The second reason happened last Thursday when we found out that another company had lost two FCR's which sit above the rotor blades on the Apache and can locate tanks, trucks and other sort of large enemy structures. It's a big radar. Altogether these two components are worth about $15 million. Yes, $15 million. So we spent two hours looking for them after work when we should have been at home. We later found out that they were in the back of a truck the company had sent to get painted. There is much more that I could go on about but that doesn't matter. Just let me ask, do you lose all common sense when you assume command of a military unit, or are some people just not born with it? I personally would go with the second answer. I do feel a little better for venting though.