Post presentations

Found this morning to be fairly interesting. In my understanding, the purpose of these evaluations on our "Post revitalization project" was to educate us on how to do this properly before we end up in the field doing it wrong! Even more intersting, is how the instructions were presented early on, but people do not follow them to the letter. You had the 20 minutes to present your case. Period! This is not the highway were you can bend the speed limit to suit yourself and then try to talk yourself out of the ticket. Follow your timelines and instructions, you wont go wrong. Taking the time to prepare and anticipate the questions that may arise takes experience. Accept the critisizm with a grain of salt. they are here to mentor us, not baby us. Also, if you were evaluated and were unhappy with the way the evaluation went, Adapt and Overcome! Do not take this personal, it is to educate, not attack. So in my opinion, National Commander Conatser's comments to the one group who were obviously offended by his direct behaviour, he is right. There is a prime example of how your delivery of the message can be taken one way, when it was meant to come out the other. In my personnal experience, it has taken a lot of crash and burning for me to understand that myself. Now, a little advice... When you go back home, or if you happen to be on any type of a strike team that this exercise is preparing you for or in any other situation, remember this: You are representing two family names. Your own, and mine...The American Legion. Take that as you will, but remember, 100 "at a boys" will never outnumber one "ohh shoot". -A. Reid Group 2.