Quote of the day: What one JO wants

From a blog comment posted
on Sunday evening:

I crave autonomy, a sense of meaning in my work, and to have
some semblance of self-determination in my career. My first two desires were
met more often than not while I was deployed to Afghanistan for the last nine
months. However, I'm not entirely sure that will continue now that my unit is
back in garrison and no longer on a patch chart. We have returned to an
environment of repetitive briefings and seemingly endless bureaucratic forms,
and all the while there are whispers of funding problems canceling
opportunities for military schools and substantive training events. Time will
tell if we head the way of incessant drill and ceremony practice augmented by
pay day activities and area beautification. Truth be told, I do not know
because I have never been in a unit that is not preparing to go to war, but
this is the fear. The fear is we will spend hours laying out and cleaning
equipment that we can't train with. That our training will be on making perfect
Powerpoint slides instead of rolling up our sleeves to enable sergeant's time.