Posted on Oct 24, 2015
AR 600-9, is leadership doing their part to ensure compliance?
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As a young Private fresh outta high school and joining the military I was a little out of shape to say the least. I joined at 25% body fat and 30 lbs over weight. I had to be tapped every time a pt test was done and was on the verge of getting kicked out of the Army. Until I stepped it up and got my weight under control thank you to no one but myself. Now I see all kinds of people who are obviously over weight are not on any profiles, but refuse to better themselves and have a professional appearance while in uniform. Of course there are certain things that can play a role in someone not being able to lose weight but what about having no will to fall within the Army standards and the soldier still gets away with it because the leadership doesn't do their part? It's frustrating to see a soldier unwilling to put the effort to get right and the leadership lets them slide by. How do we fix this within the military?!
AR 600-9
Leadership
Readiness
Edited 10 y ago
Posted 10 y ago
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I know for the reserves, there going to be kicking out a lot of floaters, especially in my company. The main with people is that for any major part in life, if someone wants change, then they'll find a reason. For me, it's the notion that I want to go further in helping others and want to join Cal Fire. The saddest thing though is the saying, "you can last a horse to water, ...".
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Regulations are like laws. They are only as good as the people required to enforce them actually do that. There may be a variety of reasons that leadership does not chapter someone out and there may be some things you do not see. In my last reserve unit, we had a bunch of field grade officers and senior NCOs. You could tell that many of them did not do regular PT and about a quarter of them did the 2.5 mile walk for the APFT. Yet, during the tape tests they almost all passed. So they met the Army standard there. That being said, I think that as the Army draws down, this will catch up with them and sooner or later, they will work in a unit with CSM that is no nonsense.
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