Posted on Nov 14, 2023
If the barracks manager/LNO/NCO is inspecting my room, can I throw a padlock onto my closet door? Will/can he make me open it?
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So I get out of the Army Dec. 26th but I begin ETS leave on November 30th. My roommate has been complaining to the barracks manager non-stop about dirty dishes left by me when I've only left 2-3 dirty plates at a time in the sink.
Anyway, the BM is going to inspect my room at 0530 every for a week to make sure it's straight. if i throw a padlock on my closet door because i don't feel like cleaning up my closet, can he force me to open it? lol
Anyway, the BM is going to inspect my room at 0530 every for a week to make sure it's straight. if i throw a padlock on my closet door because i don't feel like cleaning up my closet, can he force me to open it? lol
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Suggestion: got to the Commissary and buy a cheap 100 pack of paper plates. Throw them away after each use. Problem solved for $3.00.
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SPC Butler, The Barracks NCO might not be able to have you open your "locked" wall locker, but the Company Commander can. You have two weeks left. Like CSM ZaGara said, just get with the program and get your room squared away.
Back in the late 80s/90s if a Soldier had a problem keeping room clean that Soldier would be sleeping outside in their pup tent really.
Back in the late 80s/90s if a Soldier had a problem keeping room clean that Soldier would be sleeping outside in their pup tent really.
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CSM Scott Campbell
It was done. When I first enlisted "Corrective Training" was used so much more than UCMJ. My first day on Fort Stewart 5 Soldier from C, Co 2/21 INF robbed the Bank on POST. Two of the Soldiers stole a Jeep and raced around the post to occupy the MPs, and the other three went into the banked and conducted an armed robbery. The MPs got into a gun battle, two of the 3 robbers were captured and the other one was shot dead. The 80s were very different as the Army was still reeling from the effects of Viet Nam. So getting some Corrective Training was basically nothing.
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SGT Joseph Dutton
The Company Commander cannot order one to open a locked area. He/she can ask the individual to search the area and if the individual refuses then the Commander must summoned the Military Police for further investigation.
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There is a Garrison and command policy letter, or the like that dictates verying processes within the barracks.
Bottom line, why subject yourself to such scrutiny when all you need to do is clean up your area.
Read your note here and ask yourself what that sounds like, and how it is interpretered.
Bottom line, why subject yourself to such scrutiny when all you need to do is clean up your area.
Read your note here and ask yourself what that sounds like, and how it is interpretered.
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SGT Dave Tracy
SPC (Join to see) - I can appreciate your honesty, and maybe your roommate is oversensitive at the same time. Still, I would listen to CSM on this one; he is wise in the ways of things, and trust me, from personal experience and that of others I have seen, you do not want to set conditions to make ETSing hell, no matter how close your are. Spotlighting yourself negatively, needlessly, can do that.
Until you sign out on your terminal leave, and Bliss is in your rear-view mirror not only are you still a soldier, but--and this is the most important part for you now--a soldier who need not create hassle for himself as the days wind down. A little work on your end now, and you'll thank yourself later.
When all is said and done, then can you laugh in DD-214. Good luck out there soldier!
Until you sign out on your terminal leave, and Bliss is in your rear-view mirror not only are you still a soldier, but--and this is the most important part for you now--a soldier who need not create hassle for himself as the days wind down. A little work on your end now, and you'll thank yourself later.
When all is said and done, then can you laugh in DD-214. Good luck out there soldier!
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CSM Darieus ZaGara
SPC (Join to see) Sgt. Tracy said it, don't invite trouble. Ets'ing can be made hell if you buck the system. You have nothing to gain and everything to lose-just clean and stand by for inspection. Let it go.
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SFC Mark Riedel
Has critical thinking become a thing of the past? I read these questions every once in while and am astonished. Senior NCO's, I am glad you are on here because your duty shall never end, you may be out of uniform but since the Army apparently no longer teaches these basic duties, or how to find answers a soldier needs they come to post it here and make it public knowledge of just how incapable our woke Army has become. Please somebody prove me wrong. Unless you plan on living alone the rest of your life SOMEBODY will most likely ask you to do your dishes at some point in time.
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