Can challenge coins be added to your erb under awards?

CSM (Join to see) - yes if you have a letter signed by an O6/O5 they treat it like a Certificate of Achievement. They did that for a while, but I didn't know if they still did. Challenge coin, nope. No record.

I agree with you Sir..it was a civilian who pretty much had the equivalent rank of an O5-O6!! That when I was stationed at Bad Abling Station in Germany! It was pretty much ran by civilians!

SPC (Join to see) - Have you talked with your NCOIC? It sounds to me that you are circumventing that critical source. And by the way - what rank/pay grade are you?

SSG Robert Webster I was waiting for a response at the time I posted this

I didn’t think so but the garrison CSM made it sound like a big deal sir

It’s a big deal to be recognized for good performance. Take that encouragement and continue to work hard to achieve the mission. Soon, you will be recognized with something that you can put on your ERB. SPC (Join to see)

LTC (Join to see) yes sir

MSG Francisco Ojeda true MSG. Whatever a CSM cares about at that moment is then a big deal

SGT Joseph Gunderson

I never said you were nice.

And I never said you were dumb either. I just think it's arrogant to claim to be the smartest person in the room when you don't know any of them. Those who believe they are the most intelligent are often those who fall on the opposite end of that spectrum. Dunning-Kruger in a nutshell.

MAJ Bryan Zeski I understand Dunnung-Kruger, but it doesn't necessarily apply here. You never asked how much I know about particular things, or I would have given a very specific answer of what I know about, say, physics, or literature, or history. I simply assume I'm the smartest person in the room generally, which does not mean that I don't understand my own intellectual inadeqacies, rather I simply assume, until proven otherwise, that they aren't as great as those of whom I'm interacting. This goes doubly for academics, who for years have specialized and it has given them a sense of infallibility. I am certainly not infallible, and I am open to the idea of being proven wrong. However, when it comes to my leadership style--at least as it relates to the military, which does not work well elsewhere--my approach has proven to motivate and develop soldiers. Will it work now with the soldiers enlisting today? Possibly not. But before I left the Army about six years ago, it was working just fine.

SGT Joseph Gunderson On the internet, everyone knows everything about everything. Thanks Google.

I've never talked to someone who claims to be the smartest who ever is.

You didn't really have a lot of time to motivate and develop Soldiers as an NCO, so they are certain to have had other influences in their development.

We obviously have different philosophies in dealing with people. You assume everyone is a moron so as not be disappointed. I assume everyone is relatively intelligent so I don't underestimate them. I'd rather err on the side of caution than be caught off guard because I assumed they were a moron.

MAJ Bryan Zeski - The internet is the best and worst of humanity. I wish it wasn't so, but it is. And even on its best days, Google does not magically confer understanding; it only hands people information to regurgitate. That is certainly not "knowing."

I have been let done one too many times by people who receive the benefit of the doubt. Maybe, one of these days, I'll be willing to give people that chance again. But, at present, I would much rather be pleasantly surprised that all people aren't brain dead than have to deal with the failures of people I trusted to do a particular task.