Should NCOs inspect barracks during the weekend?

Inspections used to be once / week and Field Day was Thursday night so that if you got it wrong, you'd be busy on Friday night losing your primo social time to cleaning what you missed on Thursday. It was understood that the Barracks should be kept clean at all times, so it was not unheard of to have a random inspection, but even then you generally had a few hours advance warning that it was going to go down. As a Corporal, I was a collateral duty Wing NCO and had the dubious honor of being in charge of field days... It kind of sucked because the Sergeants didn't want to take orders from me, but they also didn't want to be in charge so they just complained and tried to get out of everything. My billet trumped their stripes. That said, we did have the cleanest wing in the barracks...

If you want the troops to be happy, you should stay out of their business and let them live without having the worry of daily inspections over their heads. Give the troops the benefit and let them prove to you that they're capable of living like adults in a clean barracks, and they'll meet your expectations; if you treat the troops as if they are incapable of living like adults and requiring constant "stupervision," they'll meet those expectations as well...

Absolutely not. Who in their right mind thinks that any idea that treats the enlisted like children instead of grown adults is a good idea? What a great way to tank retention and utterly destroy morale. As a prior enlisted Marine, I swore that if I ever became an officer I would root out any SNCO that insisted on this practice.

No guidance on what to be look for? Sounds like AIT.

Wow the pendulum has swung the other way from when I was in. What is the purpose of the a 7 day a week barracks inspection. Improve retention, doubt it. Improve the DFAC, yeah not really, take a way time from people not just the enlisted but everyone else. Who in the hell wants to work 7 days a week? What brain frozen idiot came up with this idea? Same idiots who came up with no one can own a car in USAEUR except married E-4's and above. No cars for single soldiers. After that will be no alcohol in the barracks, no food in the barracks, Commanders time on Pay Day. Lets go back to Class A inspections to get paid. Can we not learn from the mistakes of the past not to do dumb shit 30 years later.

Wow, I thought this was the job of the CQ that was on duty during the weekends. If the CQ found a trash can overflowing with trash, he would grab the closest two soldiers if it called for two and have them take the can out and have it emptied when I was in serving. I feel that to have NCO's coming into the Barracks on the Weekend is taking away from their own personal Family time and being intrusive on the lives of the lower ranked soldier's who live in the barracks. The barracks is their home and as long as it's not a shit storm and a total mess, leave the junior and sometimes junior NCO's alone on the weekends during their free time. Too much supervision stifles initiative in my book and doesn't allow junior enlisted soldier's the potential to learn and earn the respect from their peers and NCO's that are over them.

blanket daily inspections are overkill. Unless you have specific "problem children" (which should be handled on a case-by-case basis) weekly or bi-weekly inspections should be plenty.

I believe senior leaders need to show a presence. No room inspections though unless something seems way off. But its good to look at common areas, laundry rooms and walk around. I have found Vomit in hallways , broken furniture and all kinds of craziness.... the sooner found the better, and facts are easier to determine. The plan is not to find problems, but if some exist it gets them handled.

MSgt Peter Sutherland. What it looks to me is just messing with the singles. I have lived both and there is a certain amount of extra work to keep a barracks room up to standard. I have been a 1SGT with the duty to keep the brarracks ready at all time inspected rooms and all that goes with that. Another question would be if you would put a rank limit for daily room inspections? What if you have a E7 that lives in the barracks because he is single. As a E7 I would resent being inspected by anyone of a lower rank and if you have anything from a E6 doing inspections you are not giving the E7 the respect he earned. I had a E7 in the Barrett’s and the base commander decided everyone living in the barracks would have a meal card. He came to me wanting separate rations, I went to everyone asking for permission but was turned down. E7 and above is a SNCO and should be treated accordly

I tried to respect privacy while maintaing health and safety. If I had to inspect daily it would be a check in with attention, if needed focused on common areas. Scheduled dorm inspesctions once a month, unless there was a need for weekly. Clean, serviceable. This isn't boot camp

I have been in units that do this. They were usually the units with the lowest moral and cohesion. Usually there was an officer or senior NCO with more care for their NCOER/OER than care for their soldiers at the root of it. There is such a thing as too much discipline.