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
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the way i grew up was this...
E-5s - Daily before first call
E-6s - weekly before closeout
E-7s - monthly
E-8/9s - health and welfare
E-5s - Daily before first call
E-6s - weekly before closeout
E-7s - monthly
E-8/9s - health and welfare
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PFC (Join to see)
I never spent time on the active side myself, but this seems like an exquisite idea. I mean generally you have a few E-5s in the barracks there’s no need for a full inspection from them
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1SG Billye Jackson
PFC (Join to see) - Some of my E5's in the Barracks were bigger Partyers then my E4"s and Below. LOL
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Yes, at least it will coincide with the Slogan. " Army Strong, needed for the health/welfare of the Soldier.
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MSgt Roger Younce
I always considered that detail "baby sitting". Adults should not have to be supervised. Of course, we all no there are a lot of kids that come in and need adult supervisor. It was fun jumping on the screw ups.
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SFC (Join to see)
I agree in part. Daily is excessive. I do think it should be on a random basis. Not as a full barracks inspection, but each Soldier should be checked on by different members of the leadership chain on separate occasions to ensure the Soldier knows that he/she is not forgotten as soon as the duty day is over.
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1SG David Niles
Depends, NCO need to swing by to ensure they are not getting trashed, but need to let the troops unwind a bit as well. But come Monday morning that s&$t better be squared
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NCOs should walk through the barracks at odd times to make sure that there is nothing going on that should not be. I don't think that a room inspection is a good thing, nor should the NCO go through beating on doors to get that one guy who never goes anyplace to clean the latrine because he ends up cleaning it every Saturday because he is easy to find. I think that there needs to be a roster of individuals who live in the barracks to clean common areas, but I was never a fan of the "Hey You" detail.
NCOs should ESPECIALLY walk through the barracks on HOLIDAY Weekends. This informal walk through can be all the NCO needs to get an open door to find out problems and concerns of his Soldiers.
If an NCO demonstrates that he is concerned about and cares what happens to his troopers, then they respond in kind.
NCOs should ESPECIALLY walk through the barracks on HOLIDAY Weekends. This informal walk through can be all the NCO needs to get an open door to find out problems and concerns of his Soldiers.
If an NCO demonstrates that he is concerned about and cares what happens to his troopers, then they respond in kind.
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SGT Eric Knutson
other than the Hey You details, (and only a few of those I remember) thats the way we did it in Fco SSG Roger Ayscue, Of course so many of our NCO's lived in the barracks as well, but I still remember the 3rd Plt Sgt sleeping his drunk off in my room, that was in interesting morning HAHA.
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Inspection? No. That feels alot like punishment for not going off post. Check on troops informally? You bet.
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NCOs are more than welcome to walk through during the weekends.
Just don't expect me to be there.
Just don't expect me to be there.
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1SG (Join to see)
We don't expect to see you in the barracks. We are there to see the barracks. If something is jacked up in the barracks it will taken care of by those who live there.
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No, I understand we are Soldiers 24/7 but when do we allow Soldiers to be humans and Free American People. Why do we ask them to go fight for the same freedom in which we take from them. Is anybody checking the SMA's house on the weekends? No, when is the last time he had a Vehicle inspection I thought as NCO we will never ask a Soldier to do something we won't do ourselves, when did the NCO Corps become do as I say and not as I do
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MSG (Join to see)
My SGT inspected my vehicle before the last 4 day weekend (Memorial Day) and I always welcome my leadership to my home (inspection or not). I respect your opinion, but can will you elaborate further on what this has to do with freedom?
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SSG (Join to see)
Your house is where u go to relax get peace when able, but now you want to inspect the Soldiers rooms so they would have to be there for that time frame or make up the missed time. My thing is you may have your home open to your chain of command but all Soldiers just want the only two days of getting back to who they are as a person.
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I think daily would be a bit rough, soldiers, marines, etc.. are entrusted with deadly weapons and the lives of others, they can be trusted to keep a room clean for a weekly inspection. daily just seems excessive. the barracks at the command i was at was 97% ncos and above, it was odd.
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Must have been a massive wide problem of nasty barracks to warrant daily checks.
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I learned very early on, never open my doors on the weekends because of this shit. If I'm off duty, I'm not home. If you want to prove otherwise because you want to make an active effort to lower morale in your unit, you can go sign out the master key from battalion.
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I had a joke among my friends in Korea, that on the weekends we were the "kings of slobovia" our beds were unmade, clothes on the floor, and our rooms were cluttered. But by 2200 on Sunday night the only gig was an unmade bed as we were climbing into it. In Texas we had weekly room inspections by our 1SG and squad leaders during the duty day. Other than a couple small gigs there was never an issue. On the weekends though were a different story. Most of my time I had a room to myself. We would drop the extra mattresses on the floor, order pizza and watch movies until we all pretty much fell asleep. It was a coed group and everyone's clothes stayed on. I'm sure if the SDNCO or my platoon sergeant had decided to wake me up early on Saturday or Sunday, there probably would have been questions that the answers would not have been believed. But again by Sunday night, my room was more or less inspection ready. I suppose I could sum it up this way, during the week I slept in my room, on the weekends I lived there, but I was not a "barracks rat."
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