Posted on Jun 20, 2015
Should NCOs inspect barracks during the weekend?
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Barracks inspections in USAEUR are now required daily. Is this too intrusive? How deep should the inspection go and at what times?
Inspections
Leadership
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Barracks
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The idea behind this is to provid leadership presences in the barracks and let the young Soldiers know that someone is concerned about their welfare. Amytime you take someone outside their comfort zone (read the culture shock from home to a foreign land where they can’t speak the language) people get depressed and do dumb things. The married Soldiers have a family to assist them with coping but the single Soldiers do not have anyone. Engaged leadership helps and works. Remember, however, you are making these visits as a leader, not a over bearing boss.
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I have seen several people on here mention that “it’s to show young soldiers that someone cares about them” This is a very fine line to walk.
Having been on the receiving end of many of these checks; the ones where on a four day an NCO or Officer stops by ONCE knocks on the door and has a quick chat can be a good thing. When 3-4 people come by during the same weekend it begins to feel smothering (remember I’m at my “home”, watching a movie, playing video games, talking with family back home. And without notice someone just interrupted that for an impromptu 5-10 minute questioning of my weekend plans multiple times.) Worse yet are the surprise pass/fail inspections ON WEEKENDS; I have had an NCO knock on my door without notice in the morning, wake me up and then fail me because the floor hadn’t been mopped that morning. You mean to tell me the message I was supposed to take away from that was “he cares about me” because that was not how I took it. Meanwhile I can go to more than one married soldier’s house and see dirty dishes COVERING the counters with food still crusted on them, actual trash scattered around and a good coat of general dingy-ness on it all. But you know my floor not being mopped at 9 am is the real problem affecting readiness.
Having been on the receiving end of many of these checks; the ones where on a four day an NCO or Officer stops by ONCE knocks on the door and has a quick chat can be a good thing. When 3-4 people come by during the same weekend it begins to feel smothering (remember I’m at my “home”, watching a movie, playing video games, talking with family back home. And without notice someone just interrupted that for an impromptu 5-10 minute questioning of my weekend plans multiple times.) Worse yet are the surprise pass/fail inspections ON WEEKENDS; I have had an NCO knock on my door without notice in the morning, wake me up and then fail me because the floor hadn’t been mopped that morning. You mean to tell me the message I was supposed to take away from that was “he cares about me” because that was not how I took it. Meanwhile I can go to more than one married soldier’s house and see dirty dishes COVERING the counters with food still crusted on them, actual trash scattered around and a good coat of general dingy-ness on it all. But you know my floor not being mopped at 9 am is the real problem affecting readiness.
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As a commander I checked the duty log for issues daily but did not visit the barracks that often. I had pool tables brought in and a better television. Getting into better quarters was a good incentive for promotion.
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Something has to be wrong for daily inspections. There is way more to the story that isn’t being told.
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There must be something going on that makes the higher ups feel that they need to do this.
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Specialist, you don’t go in what I see is the Army, and decide everyone needs to be treated the same and given the same perks. Obviously your Recruiter lied to you about Military life. Put your time in, get out and ask the world to treat you equally, tell your boss, you deserve what he has.
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