weiser wrote:
I am writing this specifically to dawger but also to reaffirm what I always thought was written in stone.
Dawger:
You actions and inactions prior to and during, frame 5 of TSU are appalling, ugly and certainly uncalled for unless by chance, you are the new GOD of the S3 events. Cursing, ranting and badgering by you and one of your subordinates was unprofessional, bad for the community and extremely disrespectful!
Before you returned to the WB scene because of low numbers, getting people to stand up to CO a frame has been tough at times. This often led to late nights on TS with all the CO's discussing a potential plan. At least one of your squad could have made that meeting but chose not to. Your not liking my plan is fine but acting like you did because you didn't like it, was totally wrong. The other CO's that worked with me on the plan and executed it, said it was a good plan - but you went into a public tirade, refused to follow frame CO orders and acted like a 4 year old who didn't get his way.
I feel you owe me a public apology though I seriously doubt that will ever happen.
I will continue to volunteer for frame CO duties but next time YOU do not like my plan, I expect respect and not a tirade!
The problem wasn't with your plan and you know it.
The problem was with the fact that on Saturday AFTERNOON there was still no published orders of any sort. The best plan in the world published after anyone has time to prepare to implement it is useless.
If you cannot publish orders in a timely fashion, do not volunteer to act as CO. It is that simple.
A lot of us take S3 seriously. You do not, apparently. You issued orders for a target without ANY research into what was required to close it and no time for anyone else to do it.
You selected a railyard with 4 bridges attached and assigned no one to attack those bridges until I pointed that fact out ON SUNDAY MORNING. I even published a DDS MAP with the applicable bridges CIRCLED in red in an attempt to salvage the mission.
This lack of early planning left the destruction of the last bridge to our sole surviving B-24 (noflyz). I watched on radar as he charged alone and unprotected into the mass of the enemy while the only surviving fighters (7 members of 4FG) flew past him in the opposite direction. He missed one span and died trying to put his bombs on the primary target.
Omega, another member of the 4FG, went after that last span and in a demonstration of just how UNPREPARED the frame CO was HIT THE WRONG BRIDGE. He hit a bridge attached to a different province altogether.
You are the one who should apologize for volunteering for frame CO and not producing orders in a timely fashion and demonstrating total lack of preparation with regard to the orders you did eventually publish.