COLORED PEOPLE:
The STRIPES of Healing
Founding Statement:
This biweekly newsletter will seek to explain the pain and suffering mainly people of color endure through no fault of their own. The dehumanizing excuses our people always seem to elicit from people in power that make our Christian Brothers and Sisters accept their reasoning as if it was uttered by the Almighty. Lastly what I see with my own eyes begs the question from my conscience. “Are we loving or can we really love our neighbor as ourselves”.
Written by: Victor E. Moseley
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Issue 53: Some Wisdom from a Retired Black E5 Sargeant from the United States Army
Let’s get right to it. When I was in the Army. We were taught some important reasoning techniques that were applicable to solving not just ‘garrison’ problems, but problems that could arise when deployed to a ‘warzone’. Combat situations are by nature highly stressful because they demand ‘fleet of foot’ accurate decision making. Now in order to make those decisions that applied to the relevant occurrences; you had to have knowledge of your sector of responsibility. From the soldiers, rate of resupply, command over you, demonstrated patterns of enemy attacks in order to govern your base of operations. To name a few, not all, relevant things.
The ‘Air Space’ over the continental United States is not ‘one’ big sector. Common sense tells me that that would be illogical. The air space for commercial air travel is interconnected to be sure, but I’m sure it is designed in ways that if a problem occurs in one part of one sector; it will not disrupt the entirety of air travel.
Now. My next assessment of what just happened with commercial air travel may insult some people. My intent is not to insult, but to inform. That’s why leadership at the Department of Transportation. Leadership at the Federal Aviation Administration is critical. Leadership down through the chain of command is critical. The Army taught me you’ve got to know who you’ve got in those positions beneath you in order to run a smooth trouble free operation.
By trouble tree I mean that if a problem rears up; the leaders are in place with the knowledge and expertise to be on top of it!
Listen. The sectors of commercial airspace by protocols and contingencies should not have allowed the entirety of commercial air travel to be grounded. That’s not a knock on a political party. That is a knock on leadership plain and simple. Equipment will continue to fail that is a certainty! Systems and procedures that needs to snap into action when that happens should already have been tested and greenlit.
The buildout of new aviation systems, radars, high speed communication nets along with the planning should be known to all leaders up and down the chain of command. There should’ve been calls made to leaders in the sector that showed instability that went something like this: ‘To all leaders: This system is showing a possible disruption about to occur. The engineers are reporting that it may require this sector to be throttled down in air traffic. We will report progress every 15 minutes. More to follow’.
Air traffic should’ve already been diverted if necessary. Air lines should’ve already been notified. Air travel redundancies should’ve snapped into place. Critical travel, necessary priorities of flights should’ve gone out, all luggage, commercial packages, correspondence should’ve been rerouted already.
Stopping all air travel to me seemed like a drastic move made by poor uninformed leadership that just wasn’t ready or up to the job.
Now to address even the computer systems. There should be protocols in place even for that. If there is a ‘denial of service’ attack in one area. It should be cut off from the systems in another sector until the service outage has been defined. The leaders in charge of that sector should be notifying the ‘Department Head’ as information is available.
Look. I’m not trying to make anybody look good or bad by what political party. I paid attention when my superiors were deep into their ‘instruction’ periods. Implied tasks are just as important as known tasks. For instance, I don’t need to be told that I need to pack cold weather gear to use on this field training exercise. We’re not sleeping in buildings dumbass. We’re sleeping ‘al natural’ which means temperature drops happen. Don’t freeze your ass off no matter the time of year idiot!
Selecting the right people for positions that demand strong deductive reasoning, spatial circular depth perception skills and focused directional talent that steers the right resources to the right areas where the problem lies is as important as breathing! I don’t feel sorry for people that aren’t up to the moment. I don’t care what their political leanings or party.
Performing ‘intelligence’ is one thing. Possessing knowledge, intelligence and logic and using it accurately is life sustaining. Show me you know what you’re doing. Then I’ll believe what you’re telling me. Period!
We just don’t have smart people running the crucial agencies of our Federal Government right now.
Mission continues…
Be well.