What would you do if your Sergeant didn't know how to load a magazine?

How could she have ever made E5 much less E6 if she couldn’t reload? If she had combat time I feel sorry for her team mates. In the old days in Nam if a Sgt couldn’t even reload their weapon they wouldn’t last after there first fire fight.

This is what you get when you let women and homosexuals in the Army. Sorry boys-it was pushed on us-get used to it and get ready for higher casualty rates.

One it does not help anything showing this . Two people are saying stuff about her saying she was not active duty. I take that as she was not in a position to be around weapons very often. If you do some thing once a year and are new at it some time people do not remember how to do something. I was lucky I grew up around weapons so when I went to the range I was familiar with how they worked. As to reducing her .. just because she does not have this skill does not mean she is not a good NCO. This is a learned skill. It can be taught and does not tale a minute to do so.

I would have kicked her off the range.

Video removed?

First, don't video something like this. Second, the range safety should ensure that everyone is trained on the weapon, a sign off sheet should do. The NCO above her in her NCO support channel should take her from the range, and teach her. She probably just had a quick class, and got nervous. The Army trains. It's what happens on a continual basis. Even as NCOs training is important. Next time, she should teach a class on the weapon. Teaching, and the prep for the class, helps the teacher to know it better. There should be no shaming. These things happen. That's what training is for. Even NCOs can't know everything. Especially, if its not part of your regular duties. As combat soldiers, we get wrapped around the axle about the things that we take for granted. As combat soldier NCOs it is our job to know all the ins and outs of weapons fire. It is not so, for other MOSs.

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Mother of God!!! NCOs are suppose to be trainers, if they can't load a magazine.........HOW IN ALL THAT IS HOLY DID SHE GET TO BE AN NCO??? This is why I only did 11 years and couldn't do any more.

Were I in charge , she would not havd been out there.
I have worked ranges before. This is danger waiting to happen.

I don't get the problem.
You go to the range to train.
So stop complaining and get her trained proper!

Either the photo does not go wit the story or someone is making a lot of noise about nothing. The photo shows a belt fed machinegun. Belt fed weapons do not use a magazine. The photo shows a lot of empty belt links lying on the ground. So who or what is wrong here?

So. . . Where's the video? And, um, the picture shows belt fed weapons. Was she loading clips for her side arm In the video? I would train her up and make her a better soldier instead of public ridicule on the internet. Of course a little verbal embarrassment on the firing line helps with memory retention.

I think this is bs and it didNOT happen. I refuse to believe that anybody could get out of boot camp and not know this. Much less a Sgt even in the Army. I abesolutely refuse.

Scary and combat ribbon? Wtf

Safety on the firing. Range should be number one concern if someone does not know how to properly use a firearm you should not even be near it even if they were in combat she's been taken out of the line. To retrain on the weapon.

Ease up a little, CPT Pitre. Wait until you have a major momentary brain malfunction when you are out in front of your Soldiers, or in front of your rater and reviewer...you might have a little better perspective and more compassion. Yes, it is a basic soldiering skill, but she MUST have known it at some point because she made it through basic training and her deployment. As other CSM/SGMs have pointed out, the appropriate action here would have been to make the on-the-spot correction, evaluate whether this was a one-time problem or a symptom of deeper issues of either the Soldier or the unit, give them feedback, and conduct the proper training. We are supposed to teach, coach, and mentor...not film and ridicule.

The question should be how and why a soldier was promoted to NCO not knowing how to load a weapon. How many other soldier task is the NCO not proficient in. One of the roles of a NCO is to train soldiers, if soldiers are not proficient in soldiers tasks they should not be promoted to leadership roles. Looks as though in the Reserves and National Guard the only qualifications to get promoted to leadership positions is NCO Schools, and not soldiers knowledge. I wonder how long the soldier had been in the Army, I hope it was not a 3 year SSG like I have seen in the National Guard.

Is the video gone

The title to this meme is misleading, the person in question appears to wearing specialist 4 rank. The weapon shown also appears to be belt fed. I do not see any magazines present in the photo and the URL listed is not available for view.

As a safety I would approach that particular individual and instruct him or her how to load without putting them on the spot. Despite PMI, some are more proficient than others. Just because someone have a combat patch doesn't mean they carried or had to fire their weapon during their tour of duty.