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

First off, this soldier--NCO would know how to operate her equipment. This is being technically and tactically proficient. Her leadership did not do their job. It is a shame. If I was safety I would pull her off the range and assign her to remedial training. I do not know the unit's METL but I am in the school of thought that all soldiers are soldiers and the M-16 or M-4 is your primary weapon. You learn this weapon in basic training and you get so familiar with it that you can take it apart and put together blind folded. This video depicted an NCO with a piss poor reason why she could not negotiate the damn magazine.

I was once going thru M16 training in the USAF to help augment the Security Police, while breaking the weapon I completely broke it down..the instructor came and asked how I knew that, I told him that I was prior Army Guard, and did Basic at Fort McClellan...he laughed and said please put it back....no excuse for being a Reservist or Guard member...Give her or anyone else the KIWI INJECTION.

It does make me wonder what job this soldier had while earning the combat patch. We had a soldier come back from over a year deployed (I forget exactly how long) and was phenomenally overweight. For some MOS it appeared that basic military training was ignored over there.

The Army has obviously failed this soldier.

Teach her

This is a lack of training by her supervisors, not her. If she is untrainable discharge her. For anyone to film it and post it on social media, is a low life thing to do. Personally I would rather have the soldier that needs training than the backstabber low life that filmed and posted it to social media. I can train her maybe, but his cowardly ways are a good indication of moral decay.

This is the kind of crap that ticks me off. The Army and other services (the Marine Corps withstanding) all have service members that are not Gung Ho snuffies. But there are are plenty of John Wayne clones ready to say how they are going to clean up the Soldiers act...and in the process embarrass the individual and impair the individual’s confidence. Bad move and highly unprofessional.

Step back and take a breath and fall back on your leadership training and development as a mentor. Train the soldier - correct their deficiencies. Take note if there are others in the unit with the same or similar problems. Report these deficiencies and short comings to the Unit Commander and/or 1SGT or as part of an After Action bull session. This individual could very well be in every other respect; except this one mar...the Soldier’s Soldier. An expert and professional in every respect but weapons expertise.” Sufficient with an M-16A2, but never handled a SAW till now.

Do not tear the Soldier down...Build Him/Her up.

I sat next to a Lt. Col. once who tried to load an M4 mag into an M9.

be a team member and instruct hem or her on the proper way to load the magazine away from everyone. Remember they r still a NCO no matter what

Would have taken off the line, and reintructed her as how to load the magazine, then have load about fifty of them , out of sight of lower ranks.