Chris Fettes

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, and then you get a DUI and you're like, fuck, kept me out.

Yeah, and then you get a DUI and you're like, fuck, kept me out.

Yeah, and then you get a DUI and you're like, fuck, kept me out.

Yeah, so it's a toxic loop. Part of the thing you asked me earlier is what's the solution? I'm like, how do you change culture, you know? Shaming and guilting is not going to change it. So if you have a commander, somebody that's like, you know, zero tolerance shit doesn't work, you know? It's just some level of acceptability for the guys that do want to fit in, desperately want to fit in.

Yeah, so it's a toxic loop. Part of the thing you asked me earlier is what's the solution? I'm like, how do you change culture, you know? Shaming and guilting is not going to change it. So if you have a commander, somebody that's like, you know, zero tolerance shit doesn't work, you know? It's just some level of acceptability for the guys that do want to fit in, desperately want to fit in.

Yeah, so it's a toxic loop. Part of the thing you asked me earlier is what's the solution? I'm like, how do you change culture, you know? Shaming and guilting is not going to change it. So if you have a commander, somebody that's like, you know, zero tolerance shit doesn't work, you know? It's just some level of acceptability for the guys that do want to fit in, desperately want to fit in.

They have to. They don't want to participate, you know?

They have to. They don't want to participate, you know?

They have to. They don't want to participate, you know?

Yeah. It definitely changes with the ebbs and flow of operation tempo and combat, I think. It feels like it gets more toxic when you're not busy. Because in between all that shit, you've got camaraderie. You guys are out having to trust each other every night. So I talked about this the other day with my kid's baseball team. we just merged two travel baseball teams from two teams.

Yeah. It definitely changes with the ebbs and flow of operation tempo and combat, I think. It feels like it gets more toxic when you're not busy. Because in between all that shit, you've got camaraderie. You guys are out having to trust each other every night. So I talked about this the other day with my kid's baseball team. we just merged two travel baseball teams from two teams.

Yeah. It definitely changes with the ebbs and flow of operation tempo and combat, I think. It feels like it gets more toxic when you're not busy. Because in between all that shit, you've got camaraderie. You guys are out having to trust each other every night. So I talked about this the other day with my kid's baseball team. we just merged two travel baseball teams from two teams.

And we had this like separation of parents and kids going like, we're better. They're better. We should play. And finally I was like, God damn it. We're all on the same team. We're all trying our best, you know? And it's, it's that, you know, concept of acceptability. and just stopping with the bullshit so much. Like we're supposed to be focusing on a mission and we do all this bullshit stuff.

And we had this like separation of parents and kids going like, we're better. They're better. We should play. And finally I was like, God damn it. We're all on the same team. We're all trying our best, you know? And it's, it's that, you know, concept of acceptability. and just stopping with the bullshit so much. Like we're supposed to be focusing on a mission and we do all this bullshit stuff.

And we had this like separation of parents and kids going like, we're better. They're better. We should play. And finally I was like, God damn it. We're all on the same team. We're all trying our best, you know? And it's, it's that, you know, concept of acceptability. and just stopping with the bullshit so much. Like we're supposed to be focusing on a mission and we do all this bullshit stuff.

The fitting in part and the reputation barge is really, really, really hard and a hard thing to change. But I think that it's happening naturally because you can't deny... how good it works to optimize guys. And they're starting to do it. There's like this program called Virginia Human Performance where they actually can now go do this once a year.

The fitting in part and the reputation barge is really, really, really hard and a hard thing to change. But I think that it's happening naturally because you can't deny... how good it works to optimize guys. And they're starting to do it. There's like this program called Virginia Human Performance where they actually can now go do this once a year.