US Leadership

[Vibe 1,088]

Introduction

Hey there my name is Vibe. You might know me as the leader of MID, one of those toxic Vega guys, or just a minge. Whatever you know me as it doesn't really matter. I know the title might shock you little US mains out there but let's get to the facts. US Leadership fucking sucks. Before you get your panties in a bunch lets talk about what makes me qualified to talk about leadership. I currently lead an RU SOC (MID/GRU), I've been LtGen of Tali/055 twice, I was captain in Haqqani, and other officer or high enlisted ranks. Leading is not as hard as people make it sound. You also don't have to be a faction leader or High officer to lead. Enlisted can lead just as well if not better than some officers. Here recently since I've been playing US I've noticed that a lot of enlisted are actually not retarded. The only problem is they don't wanna keep playing cause there are no competent officers or in the case of some factions no officers at all. Enough with all the background and general complaints, let us get a little more precise to certain factions problems. 

Marines/Marsoc

Possibly the best faction on US. They have active officers, active enlisted, and generally cool people. The only issue I've noticed is there is either a lot of Marines or none at all. Marines also carry a lot of the burden of the US. When it comes to US entry factions Marines are the obvious better group. They have better shot-calling, better officers, and a player base that cares about wars. The problem with that is that their morale gets low as fuck when US keeps getting destroyed and there is nothing they can do. It fucking sucks. I know the pain. I played afghan during the seal reign and it was fucking annoying. The only way this can fix if the US as a whole gets its shit together.

Army

Zoo we mama I've been waiting to say this for a bit. Army fucking blows. All around. Shitty enlisted and shitty officers. All day today I say Army officers just b hopping around in base and doing absolutely while we are losing the war. Army enlisted is running around like fucking chickens with their heads cut off and Army officers are singing through their mic acting more retarded than the fucking Privates. While shitty enlisted come from shitty officers, I can't blame the officers for everything. Don't get me wrong I think Chris is a cool guy and I personally don't think he's done a shit job leading Army but recently some actions have not been too good. A 2 month LOA leaving no one in charge is fucking insane. I understand shit happens and IRL take precedent, but at least put someone in charge of army while you're gone. Next imma get on this boi Vaughn. I lead a war as a PVT the other week cause it was literally 6 mins till war and nobody else had the balls to do it. Literally, as soon as I call it I'm getting PMs saying "Who are you" "Why is a PVT leading DB" Etc. Just last week Van accepted a TC only war cause it was really late and Vaughn blamed the whole war loss on him. Even after the war Vaughn took control of the DB and continued to blame Van. Vaughn is the first to blame and the last to act. 

GB

Nothing much to say here. Recently been doing pretty good and just needs a good leader to stay and actually lead for a bit.

Seals 

Idk why Delphin got the faction back after he stopped playing the server since he left seals back during Taiga but whatever hopefully the active seals keep up and improve.

Rangers

People coming of LOA and recently Gildarts has made moves in removing inactive so hopefully, it picks back up. 

I know this post is gonna get both hate and praise but someone had to grow some balls and call out the BS that is slowly killing US

[Dillan 750]

You forgot to cover delta on your post

[Witchings 70]

Honestly I think you're pretty much dead on with everything you've stated. Problem being is what do you propose to solving a really big problem such as this one?

[PhatPropane 36]

We are working things out with Vaughan and it is actually going a lot better.   If you want to tell me about something that happened message me on the forums or on steam.

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/765611983333137

Edited April 20, 2019 by PhatPropane

[Angelsdog 10]

Just to help clarify he did leave Phat in charge

[Krimzin 535]

Big agree. One thing to improve the state of 1MD and MARSOC from what you've said, is to (not egotistically) consider 1MD higher. So for the 1MD officers, don't put down 1MD enlisted, that'll boost the morale and 1MD will be back to it's prime.

[huskaii 586]

From what i see this pretty much sums up everything. And its really sad to see that one side of the server is just doing really bad. Not to say that RU doesn't have problems, but from a US standpoint it seems that RU actually has some decent leaders. No wonder russia is always able to destroy US, because they have some officers that know what the fuck to do. The only time US is able to win a war is when we outnumber russia by a FUCK TON or we just get really lucky. For the US factions, the leaders of those just need to work stuff out and get it rolling for now.

Edited April 20, 2019 by Huskaiii

[.lua 234]

I agree with the he Army post heavily.

I love Chris, nothing against him whatsoever.

From switching from RU to US to help the underdog hasn’t been a cake walk at all. Vaughn since day 1 has been a struggle for me to continue helping US, he blacklisted me from Army the first day I switched over to help. It’s made me less motivated to play because of the structure of US but i’m still going for it. Officers on the United States are incompetent to where they can’t host debrief or take charge with their abilities. When I was a SO3 = CPL, I was calling DB as no other WO or O-1+ wanted to call it as they’re afraid of losing a war or being blamed for it.  Every DB I make a comment about it too all the officers on stage on how they need to grow a pair and just call it. Vibes point on Enlisted taking leadership roles, is what happens. I’ve basically told Seals they can call a DB if no officer is gonna do it. 

Vibe, you beat me to this post. Currently i’ve been away from home for about four days and will be back tomorrow. I was thinking about making a whole US meeting and seeing how that would go. I’ve never attended a US wide meeting, only RU but I imagine it could do some good. The US side lacks strong leadership but their is upcoming potentional from some people. Skill and leadership wise, for ex. Witchings or whatever his name is makes my mind change for GB. He’s a good player and understands how to lead.

-Expect errors in this writing, typed this on my phone.

[Cameron 46]

I mean the quality and standards of leadership has gone down significantly since maybe Taiga, no one holds meetings anymore, enlisted have no idea what they’re doing half the time and factions are always at each other’s throats. Honestly all I can say to lead a good quality SOC faction is be active with your enlisted it boosts the morales, cut the toxicity(literally every faction) especially the SOC leaders come down on toxic behaviour more because it makes your faction look bad. Also quality not quantity. If you’re down because you have only 5 members active don’t be, as long as they’re good players and you have good chemistry you’re doing good. 

[Viva 201]

3 minutes ago, .lua said:

I was thinking about making a whole US meeting and seeing how that would go

Afghan did the same thing when leadership problems were happening. We had a huge summit with leaders and their 2nd in command of each faction talking shit out. It seems like a lot of effort but at this point, it's seems worth it.

[{GG}otham 812]

I feel the responsible thing for me to do in a post like this is to not comment on most of topics covered in this post to avoid further tensions between factions of the US. However, I can confirm that 1MD and MARSOC alike will continue to strive for both a better faction and better US as a whole.

[MattWatson 35]

I can understand your frustration with Vaughan. Army High Command has been dealing with the situation with Vaughan. But to make a point, after the war unless there are tryouts going on most people sit around for an hour on end doing nothing. This same thing happens in the real military, just look at almost any military fail videos there will be soldiers dicking around on base when not out killing shit.

Edited April 20, 2019 by MattWatson

[PrisonNightmare 741]

Yeah, I agree with the point you made with Army. I believe the current officers do need to be "Re-trained" on how to be a competent officer, but I don't think anyone should be demoted. Army has been long struggling with having no officers for probably 6ish months now, so I'm happy to see that they are starting to get those numbers up, even if they as of right now aren't the best leaders.

 

I think Chris just needs to focus and improve the ones who are lacking, and hopefully it starts to shape up better.

 

3 minutes ago, Matt Watson said:

I can understand your frustration with Vaughan. Army High Command has been dealing with the situation with Vaughan. But to make a point, after the war unless there are tryouts going on most people sit around for an hour on end doing nothing. This same thing happens in the real military, just look at almost any military fail videos there will be soldiers dicking around on base when not out killing shit.

 

I mean, for army you could be enacting roleplay with the enlisted, rather than just sitting around and doing nothing, you know? Obviously, it's fine to do that some of the time but if that's all you do then there's a problem. You could be doing PT, Sims, Raids, tryouts or even just teach the newer enlisted how to run OC.

 

The more you do that kind of stuff the better it will improve Army, I believe. If you are doing this stuff then that's good, keep trying to improve the faction. But if you aren't, then I highly suggest that you start doing this stuff more.

[MattWatson 35]

 

 

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1 minute ago, PrisonNightmare said:

I mean, for army you could be enacting roleplay with the enlisted, rather than just sitting around and doing nothing, you know? Obviously, it's fine to do that some of the time but if that's all you do then there's a problem. You could be doing PT, Sims, Raids, tryouts or even just teach the newer enlisted how to run OC.

 

The more you do that kind of stuff the better it will improve Army, I believe. If you are doing this stuff then that's good, keep trying to improve the faction. But if you aren't, then I highly suggest that you start doing this stuff more.

We work with our officers to have activities like sims and tryouts as much as possible but sometimes tryouts just can't happen because they're not eligible and sims sometimes cant happen after every war. We in army strive to make are faction great. Most of our officers are very qualified officers. I personally try to train the new officers to be the best they possibly can. This goes to anyone who has an issue with army officers. Contact me personally with what you believe they're doing wrong and if there evidence to believe that they need retraining I will make sure they get Retrained.

[Dillan 750]

When the only time you can win, is when russians play you side, its almost certainly because off a skill gap. That's an easy issue to address.