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How do other units handle the M-day duties of their AGR soldiers. I have two AGRs soldiers assigned to my operations section, the Training NCO and the Readiness NCO. On drill weekends, they are often pulled away from their M-day duties to perform their AGR duties (as in the duties they are responsible for from their assigned position on the UMR) An example is submitting payroll, but there are many others.
How do other units handle this issue?
How do other units handle this issue?
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I had to educate myself on what M-Day was, new terminology arises all the time.
When I was the training/operations NCO in my last unit this was a common thing to happen every month. I had one BN CDR give the officers a drop dead date of say weds prior to request any info from me that they might need during the weekend. That way I could have it all pulled and ready for them eliminating a lot of the pulling if me back into the office.
My counter part was a mil tech doing S1 during the week and was the S4 come BA weekend. She got to the point where she'd refuse to even answer an S1 question on BA weekend. It was a matter of the BN CDR having to step in and remind the BN that on the weekend she is only to go S4 business.
We did an excel sheet showing where various actions were in the process and put together binders for each of our section heads to eliminate the pull on us. Sadly there is no completely getting away from it but it can be minimized.
When I was the training/operations NCO in my last unit this was a common thing to happen every month. I had one BN CDR give the officers a drop dead date of say weds prior to request any info from me that they might need during the weekend. That way I could have it all pulled and ready for them eliminating a lot of the pulling if me back into the office.
My counter part was a mil tech doing S1 during the week and was the S4 come BA weekend. She got to the point where she'd refuse to even answer an S1 question on BA weekend. It was a matter of the BN CDR having to step in and remind the BN that on the weekend she is only to go S4 business.
We did an excel sheet showing where various actions were in the process and put together binders for each of our section heads to eliminate the pull on us. Sadly there is no completely getting away from it but it can be minimized.
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There is always going to be an overlap. Part of my trying to minimize some if it was to get the junior NCOs a chance to actually do their job discription even though my doing it would simply be faster. I wanted them to learn ask questions but mostly gain experience...if separating myself somewhat from my office on the weekends accomplished it, then that was what was going to happen. However I harbored no illusions that I wasn't going to get sucked in at some point.
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I like the idea, of the wednesday prior. I try to have my expectations and taskers ready before the monthly training meeting. Basically so they can do some of what will be expected for M-day work on the AGR time if you will. I am glad to hear that this is not unit specific issue.
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I was AGR for 27 years. Of those 17 years I was a readiness NCO In a Sginal Battalion. The right answer is the AGR soldier should perform duties of the postion on the UMR during UTA. That being said the AGR soldier must assist the command in any matters they can as a full time employee.
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Sir, AGR’s have a hard roll which will usually clash with their M-day roll. What I have seen is they hold a slot of PSG but a senior M-Day soldier within their PLT ends up managing the position due to their AGR duties taking up most of their time. They have command of the PLT but they entrust great responsibility and trust in whoever the individual selected is will follow their guidelines and report back to them with any problems and it is a great learning for the representative as well. I have great respect for AGR,s due to them being the backbone of the unit ensuring it’s continuous function. They are the 1SG and commander representative ensuring everything functions smoothly on and off duty.
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