Posted on Oct 19, 2015
Why is it so hard to discharge soldiers who continually miss drill/battle assembly?
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I'm seeing more and more soldiers just out of training not showing up. First I ask myself why. Second I ask why should it take 9 missed mutas to actually affect the soldier? Sure you can take their bonuses and GI Bill benefits but at the end of the day it's a general discharge. I think there needs to be stiffer penalties for those soldiers who waste the militaries time, money, and resources. Any other thoughts on this?
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Flag soldiers who are unsat early in the process. There are some that play brinkmanship with the 9 unsats. They play the game and come back right before the clock stops on them. The clock re-starts only to go through the same unproductive process again. Flagging is an early alarm and can end up going with the soldier if he ends up back in the IRR.
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I commanded a multi-compo unit back in the day....
we had people missing drill because they were contractors living in Iraq!!
We also had some silly "save the soldier" program where the NCOs had to call and damn near invite the reservist to come to drill...
But I did have someone share some interesting perspective...drill duty isn't their primary bread and butter - if you are making 50K a year at your regular job, trying to get promoted through those ranks...drill just isn't a super priority for you - I guess I get it...I don't know...
we had people missing drill because they were contractors living in Iraq!!
We also had some silly "save the soldier" program where the NCOs had to call and damn near invite the reservist to come to drill...
But I did have someone share some interesting perspective...drill duty isn't their primary bread and butter - if you are making 50K a year at your regular job, trying to get promoted through those ranks...drill just isn't a super priority for you - I guess I get it...I don't know...
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That soldier making 50K+ who couldn't make drill should have asked for (and received) an excused absence or arranged to perform an RST.
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Easy enough to excuse performance while a reservist is out of the country. Not even a challenge if the deployment is offset with the fiscal year.
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MAJ (Join to see) - At worst, the soldier won't get a "good" retirement year. I've had many years that weren't good retirement years because my civilian commitments caused too many (all excused) absences.
For four years I was a Federal Agent working for the INS and later ICE roughly 80 hours per week, attended law school at night and was a reservist. Needless to say I missed many drills, but never had a single U. I RST'd when I could, but just accepted the fact that those four years of law school were not going to be good retirement years and drove on.
For four years I was a Federal Agent working for the INS and later ICE roughly 80 hours per week, attended law school at night and was a reservist. Needless to say I missed many drills, but never had a single U. I RST'd when I could, but just accepted the fact that those four years of law school were not going to be good retirement years and drove on.
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