Posted on Apr 18, 2018
What really pushes your patience when leading soldiers?
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This should be interesting. I would really like to know what some of your ''Pet Peeves" are when leading your troops. I'm a very patient person in general and known to have a "long fuze." However, certain behaviors such as a crap attitude, dirty ass barracks room, laziness, and plain out disrespect really top my list of times when I had to control myself and ''attempt'' to remain professional to the best of my ability.
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Lying. If a person doesn’t want to do something, tell me why. If a person botched a job, tell me. If you don’t know what or who or how, just say so. But don’t lie to me!
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That was the big one with me, too. I told every unit I led that even the very best of us will at some time or another make a huge mistake. But you just have to admit it and move on. Hiding or lying about it harms the unit and prevents us from examining procedures to see if there are ways to help ensure it doesn't happen again. So I told them I was willing to underwrite mistakes made in good faith, but not lying. You either have integrity or you don't. It's not a sliding scale.
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When I was still in the Army, the one thing that I really hated was when Soldiers would ask for help or guidance and then refuse to use it. What made this even more annoying is when it would cause the little idiots to complain to someone above me that the situation or what-have-you went wrong or, even worse, when their conduct or failure negatively affected me. Case and point, I once had a Soldier who messed up right after turning 21 and got himself a DUI. He was a great Soldier and seemed to understand that he had messed up and legitimately wanted to correct himself. I stuck my neck out for him because it was the only bad thing that he had ever done. Fast forward a few months and he got another DUI and the command, from the Brigade down, all had it out for the lowly E-5 who vouched for the idiot private... Lessons learned...
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SSG Jose M. Hernandezsanchez
SGT Gunderson,
I had a similar situation with two different Soldiers, one of them actually fixed himself up after some corrective training, but the other didn't who as a matter of fact, went to South Korea and got himself into deeper trouble when the local authorities got involved. These two individuals are not longer in the Army, but they are both doing very well. They were good kids and hard workers, but the only bad thing was their personal life outside the workplace.
I had a similar situation with two different Soldiers, one of them actually fixed himself up after some corrective training, but the other didn't who as a matter of fact, went to South Korea and got himself into deeper trouble when the local authorities got involved. These two individuals are not longer in the Army, but they are both doing very well. They were good kids and hard workers, but the only bad thing was their personal life outside the workplace.
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SGT Joseph Gunderson
Yeah, I'm still in contact with this kid and he is doing very well now. I'm glad that he finally grew up and screwed his head on straight.
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