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

My first question is, "What team do we play for"? I played for the U.S. and all Military personnel within it. If someone above me didn't know how to do something, I would show them and move on. Not talk about how a soldier didn't know it. If you gave out instructions first on how and what to do and they still didn't know, then the question becomes, "did you read and practice the material you were given"? I remember coming back to the military after being out for almost ten years. I was a Specialist and had 13 years of service. When I left, we never had backpacks with frames, just a backpack with two straps that went over your shoulders. When I went to a formal school for my MOS, we were issued gear for the field which included a backpack and a frame that were separate. I didn't know how to put them together correctly. An E1, Pvt, came over to me and showed me how to do it. Was I a little embarrassed, yes, but very great full to them for showing me and teaching me something. I never forgot and later on, showed the Pvt some tricks to keep ribbons from having dimples behind them for their inspection. We all have strengths and weaknesses and we don't always get instruction on things that we may not have done in a long time. WE ARE THE SAME TEAM though and to teach and learn from each other only makes us stronger and puts us back down to earth when it's needed.

Units fault. If she didn’t know how to use her weapon, senior leadership failed this Sergeant. I would have done my best to retrain her as well.

First off I would let her know up front that regardless of her daily status today she is active and than I would do what any good leader would do, Train her. In the 20 some odd years active duty I have trained and been trained.

Whose baby making apparatus did she fraternize with at the board?
How did she get through BNOC if she couldn't make use of her weapon?...
So many questions... I'm running out of scalp to scratch!

After watching this video, it shows how poor management and leadership of her unit has; I'm willing to bet the unit decided to go do their qual and didn't even bother to make sure everyone received PMI prior to execution..sad sad day!

You can't always blame to Soldier for their short comings. Case being I was a 88M SSG got PCS'ed to Germany. Low and behold I never been in a unit with a truck and trailer. Needless to say I had privates actually helping me out because the first 8 to 10 years of my military career I we in support units. And to be honest there is no perfect Soldier. Reducing her in rank is not the answer. Maybe had the unit did some training prior to this she would have done better.

She was supposedly qualified with that weapon, even as a reservist.....and that means she was supposed to be knowlegeable about the nomenclature and function of every part. I wouldn't have let her anywhere near it unless I was sure she was thoroughly familiar with it.

Black Flag, recycle, this is just unacceptable no matter what the rank. Not only seeing the vid witch should have not been made public, seeing stuff like this just pisses me off to High Heaven. We are Professional soldiers and should be viewed by the public as such.

Take apart the weapon ten times and do magazine transitions twenty times.....that is UNSAT....Soldiers today do not have the Warrior mindset....Basic Soldiering skills must be reinforced from the 11B to the 42A....I had 68Ws that could Shoot-Move-Communicate just as well as my ground pounders....leaders lead by example.....

looks to me that is a beltfed weapon. I watched the news back when Srmy Units first landed at an airport in Iraq with no loaded mags most of those troops had big problems loading up, even with stripper clips.