Should NCOs inspect barracks during the weekend?

In my entire career until retirement, I only saw 1 full blown down inspection...1977 at kadena on a SAT morning the wing commander visited every dorm room on base with the unit commander and first set...a 30 second walk thru making sure all was in neat orderly manner, no write ups, no nothing... Just in n out... The rest of the years first Sgt and form chief would check em monthly... Housekeeping kept the rooms clean except for desks and lockers ... Everything just to make sure neatness and safety reasons... Never any complaints or problems

Yes, a walkthrough should be done on the weekend. start with common areas and if they are ok, end it there. Its what the CQ should be doing anyway. As for the rooms themselves, no, either you have provided adequate mentorship and leadership to your soldiers so they can be trusted to maintain their personal space on a weekend or you didn't, in which case it's you that has the issue.

The exception to the rule is when a trend is established of multiple soldiers having issues on the weekends or a soldier who during the week fails inspections and walkthroughs. Then you should be providing additional oversite anyways. Daily inspections are an overreaction and a sign of poor leadership.

Good idea to inspect what you expect. Troops can get pretty loose on weekends. Unexpected inspections would tighten them up.

Hell yeah Joe's a nasty bastard.

Suck it up .
Our squad leader inspected our rooms daily our plt Sgt did them and Top would walk thru.
We knew what the standards were for keeping barracks squared away resulting in fewer GI parties fewer ass chewing .

Here's the thing, the Army owns the barracks. The Army makes the rules just as your parents did when you lived in their house. You cannot except not to be intruded on if you are living in someone else's property. Just as if you lived in a rental off base. A landlord has every right to inspect their property with a given notice. Leaders are required to give notice. Unfortunately for some, their battle buddies live like pigs and ruin it for the bunch. As for those of you who say inspect the married couples homes too, it's not that easy. First, the Army doesn't own the property (on base housing is privatized too) and the spouse is typically civilian who the Army has no control over. There are exceptions to all of these rules but as a leader you should be talking to your command team and legal counsel if you are questioning the validity of these inspections. You should also think about the why. Why does the Army (or any other service) care what my room looks like? There's more to it than simply did I make my bed.

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Well, I was in the Army from 1980-1987 and they inspected the barracks daily. I had that detail too. I agree that they inspect them.

What is being called a barracks inspection here is typically a walk through nothing wrong with that the CQ is supposed to the same thing several times during there Duty. How ever during a walk through if you hear real loud music it is not a bad thing to rap on a door and ask them to turn it down a little on and on, Make sure you log in and out with the CQ and any thing that needs corrected or on the spot corrections were done. I used to do both on and off post walk throughs and meetings I liked doing a walk through at 0900 in the morning for barracks I am not really bothering anyone just looking around. Even when we still had Sqd And Plt bays just walk in and look around. Most of the folks were okay with it and never fussed at all rather welcomed it than trying to find something wrong with it they knew I would be there so they expected it. People in quarters and off post I would ask in advance if I could stop over and see how things were going Never had but one person tell me no and the one that did came up hot on the Next Piss test. Had a PFC married living in off post housing with his wife when I showed up the place was freezing I ask what was going on he said the Heater broke he Called the Land Lord His response was I will send someone out Monday That did not go over well with me so called the 1SGT. He made some phone calls and bang some one was working on his heat. Mean while I took them to my Place for coffee\ hot chocolate and Mid day chow. We watched the football game in about two hours they had great heat and was happy. Visits like that are important.

Inspect? No. Check on our Soldiers and their living conditions? Sure.