Posted on Oct 18, 2015
What kind of Guard retention efforts have you had success with in your State?
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Specifically for Guard units (Army or Air), what kind of Retention efforts have you had success with within in your State?
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Posted 10 y ago
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Schools, deployments, and training opportunities work well for us. I have Soldiers choosing to ETS because we're not deploying in the near future. Likewise schools like Air Assault, Pathfinder, and Ranger go a long ways in keeping young 11Bs motivated.
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MAJ (Join to see)
Hey CPT, thats awesome. As it happens I'm staffing a project to study the effects of ARNG units offering schools for reenlistment. What State are you from and how do you wrangle the State into giving you seats and provide funding for such a thing? ...guessing you may be in a well funded infantry BN.
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MAJ (Join to see)
MAJ (Join to see) I'm from Arkansas and a member of the 39th Infantry Brigade. I wouldn't call us "well funded" but we do get a fair amount of school opportunities. A few months ago I sent a Soldier to Pathfinder. We also have the ARNG Sniper school in Little Rock, so there's a number of opportunities there as well. To be clear, I don't promise schools in exchange for reenlistment. However, I do believe they're a retention tool. Even the possibility has a positive effect on retention. Young men don't enlist as 11B's to sit in an Armory once a month.
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MAJ (Join to see)
MAJ (Join to see) - Thats great, I bet that Sniper School is Guard funded and operated. At Camp Robinson right?
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Being in the Guard for about 10 years I will say it really depends on the units. Leadership is a big deal. I have seen awesome soldiers get out due to poor leadership. The best thing you can do is develop a system to create good unit morale. If you don't have that then you are going to see numbers drop.
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The offer of ING allows for a soldier to take a break from the grind of all the sacrifice and still make a choice while retaining time in grade (just not retirement). It's a good option for most, especially if they are doing IRR time. Then you save them from ridiculously being called back up to fill some slot for a couple months in some other part of the country that needs numbers.
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CPL(P) (Join to see)
Anytime Sergeant. I pay attention and genuinely want to help improve our organization, as you clearly do.
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SSG Keven Lahde
SFC (Join to see) I want to retire. I haven't come this far not to get anything in return.
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Retention is a problem in the military and civilian market. People quit on there first immediate boss or NCO. Really though states very on benefits to reenlist.
As a Retention NCO they have to listen. I know some units struggling cause of the APFT, or total percentage of unit strength allowed.
Ask yourself Why 5 to 10 times. For an example Google 5 Why root cause problem solving. Have a great day.
As a Retention NCO they have to listen. I know some units struggling cause of the APFT, or total percentage of unit strength allowed.
Ask yourself Why 5 to 10 times. For an example Google 5 Why root cause problem solving. Have a great day.
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Our CSM was pushing big bonuses ($20k) really hard a few months ago to get soldiers to re-up.
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Going in the IRR to work as a Contracter to make the big bucks for a year or two and still being a soldier always
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I don't know about the state in regards to efforts but I have seen various units take their time with retention It pretty much comes down to this , if a unit wants to keep you on the " books " then they will go out of their way to make sure that your thinking of staying in but if not then they will wait until the last minute to question you on if you have considered staying in or getting out I have actually seen this happen way too many times , myself included
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During my time as ados out retention methods where very successful.
We would usually go to units during there drill weekends and have meetings with there NCOs and soldiers who where going to ets with in a year or less.
Talk about reclassing, promotions, bonuses student loan repayments, ocs options etc i
We would usually go to units during there drill weekends and have meetings with there NCOs and soldiers who where going to ets with in a year or less.
Talk about reclassing, promotions, bonuses student loan repayments, ocs options etc i
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