Excuses

It seems the norm nowadays is to make excuses for failure. In the military, we do not want to hear excuses. If you fail, commanders only want to know what happened, how quickly it can be fixed, and how to insure it will not happen again—not why it was no your fault that it happened. Rarely occurring fixable mistakes are allowed, otherwise, there may be repercussions later, either in performance evaluations or promotions, or possibly by receiving non-judicial or judicial punishment. There is no time for excuses during war, the job must get done and done quickly. If you do it right the first time, there will be no need for excuses.