I've always had a pretty independent streak, so belonging to an organization where everyone is responsible for each other has been a big change. If one person on a team does the wrong thing, their leadership is in trouble. If half of the company messes up, the whole company loses privileges (i.e. having to sleep at attention). This groupiness is counteracted by the fact that we have to critique and rate each other every week.
This is how things went down this week where I belong. 7 of the 10 people on my squad went to basic together. The team was feeling the team love and agreed that every week we would change the order of how we rated people so no one would end up in the bottom twice. It was our pact. Today I found out the pact was really only created to benefit the 7 old friends who always rated each other in the top and that they were choosing amongst themselves which of the remaining three of us would get the bottom slot. I don't belong to them. Then they critiqued me for not spending enough time with them. I do belong to them. Our sergeant figured out ways they were rigging the system and created new squads. I don't belong to them.
The tricky thing is that we need each other to survive here. We need them to rate us well. But there are weasels amongst us. Survivor island continues.
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