When I was a Lieutenant, I had one NCO on my team. Dude was a walking trash bag. Lazy as all hell, did nothing all day, wouldn't volunteer, go to school, try to become a stronger intelligence analyst, write reports or decorations...nothing. Back to back failed PT tests. If it was shytty, his name was in the mix. Dude got orders to a NorCal base and frankly, I was worried for the receiving unit, but it was going to make my life easier when he left. I felt bad thinking that as a young officer...but when my E3s are running circles around the dude what else is there to say.
His wife wasn't having these orders. She threatened to divorce him if they went out there. As much of a dirtbag he was, I didn't want to see him get a divorce. Our Maj and Squadron Commander reach out to AFPC with this ultimatum his wife presented him...and holy shyt, they rescinded his orders. Any of the other Air Force bubbas in this thread will tell you..that
never happens. I was in disbelief..but happy this would hopefully save his marriage.
It didn't. His wife reveals that this whole time she's been having a long-distance affair with some dude in Florida, and she was looking for any excuse to divorce him. Their marriage had been on the rocks for a while. She took their 3 kids (one was not his biological child, it was her first kid from a previous relationship), bought 4 tickets to Florida with their combined finances, and flew out.
He was crushed. Moping at work, needing time off, all of that. He WANTED to go to NorCal, he had family there, and apparently felt it would be a position he would succeed in. We had to keep a close eye on him, be wingmen for him, and get the chaplain involved; some folks were afraid he was going to commit suicide.
Like 2 or 3 weeks later, his wife calls. Her Jody dumped her. Jody straight up tooted and booted. She wanted to get back together with him now. The other NCOs and one of our prior-enlisted Lieutenants tried to convince him not to do it; she had disrespected him and threw his life into a tailspin. He didn't care. He took a week of leave, drove Florida, and drove the whole family back up our duty station. I couldn't believe it.
I've PCS'd since then, but apparently, dude's a still a dirtbag, and totally good with it.