ARCOM for calling out inappropriate use in Social Media. Appropriate or not?

Equally her fault for accepting it - she should know better. This is just another disgrace.

An ARCOM!??? I rescued two guys from a flipped tanker truck and my CO wouldn't put me in for anything. Guess it just depends on who is in your line of command.

All the 1SGs I know would have Pted the person who tried to put them in for an award for that. What's wrong with you Airborne? Elevate your feet!

I find it absurd and disheartening that so many people on RP resent how "soft" the Army has gotten and continues to get "softer". However, a 1SG calls some obnoxious troops "stupid" and she is condemned as unprofessional by fellow NCOs. You have got to be kidding me!

Is the focus on how this article downplays soldiers' comments and attitudes about SHARP issues? No.
Is the focus on how great it is that leaders are finally supported by their chain of command? Nah.

Apparently the more important picture here is her choice of adjectives, her supposedly "trolling" social media and then receiving an award for it.

An ARCOM is entirely inappropriate for a 1SG doing her job. She shouldn't have received any award in my opinion, although good job for checking those troops. I think soldiers making light of sexual harassment and assault is unprofessional and someone holding them accountable to their actions is hardly trolling!

Your idea of "learning opportunity" for the 1SG comes across as you mocking her as well as mocking the SHARP Program. Accusing her of being too lazy or seeking recognition, really CSM Dula? How professional is that?

Thank God for the noncommissioned officers on here who are intelligent enough to know she didn't give herself an award and for those who support their fellow noncommissioned officers.

She was doing her job, and should have gotten a letter added to her service record, and not an ARCOM. I was denied an ARCOM, after saving a fellow 18 year old soldier, who had collapsed during a PT run. Members of his unit were tripping on him, lying in the road, but no one stopped to check on him, or help him. I had been on detail, for being late to formation. I gave CPR, and rushed him to the hospital, in my Jeep, saving his life. I received a letter of appreciation, because it would not have looked good to have a soldier, reduced in rank for 15 days, to receive an ARCOM. Anyway...rambling...... There are more deserving soldiers out there, who have , or should have earned that ARCOM, and not Top!

Sounds like a NCOER bullet point. No more, no less. (Wait isn't that required now?)

The new motto for the ARCOM? "Highly coveted, widely distributed."

While I applaud the 1SG for standing her ground, I disagree wholeheartedly with her being awarded an ARCOM. I also disagree with the fact she aggravated the situation further with her response. As we say in the Army, there is the right way, there is the wrong way, and then there is the Army way.

ARCOM is too high of an award. There are hundreds of thousands of people who deployed for a year or more and didn't even get an AAM.

No..... is this a bogus question????? what will they think of next???Arcoms should be for exceptional duty in and around your MOS, not BS like this.Guess Ill be taking mine off my un iform since it just became a trash ribbon.... Look Top...I found a typo on a web page !!!!!
!!!!!! do I get an award too????? such bullshit

If she was actually doing her job...dont think she would actually PHYSICALLY get out of her office and do on the spot corrections at the barracks or have soldiers policing up the company area or better yet..getting paper work through to the commander rather than sitting desk side with nothing to do than to through rank around in the virtual world? Going above and beyond means doing more for YOUR OWN soldiers. What a waste of ink and card stock paper.