You have been given the authority to change three things in your branch or DoD wide … What are they?

******Policy writing needs to have a better review process. There is not process for a class action against a policy. There is only IG, and they only handle one Soldier issue at a time.

ALARACT for Prevention of Sexual Assault
It states that person who have certain offenses cannot serve in positions of trust. They are going back as far as 20 years on Soldiers. I have two outstanding Soldiers that can no longer be Drill Sergeants because of this. One Soldier had a DUI six years ago. I do not believe that getting a single DUI makes you at a higher risk to sexually assault someone. I believe that some of the policies being written do not make sense. Many of these Soldiers identified as level I or II are bowing out because they do not want to relive their mistakes.

There is a policy that states that Soldiers must be licensed on their assigned vehicle. This is moronic because many units such as Drill Sergeant units do not have vehicles. My Soldiers still have to be able to drive military vehicles when sent to various installations. There should simply be a process for licensing other than being dependent on other units for licensing.

********I would issue proper equipment to do the job.
We expect Soldiers to do a ton of things online using tons of bandwidth. Many of my Soldiers in the Inland Northwest live off the grid. We are losing great Soldiers do to the increases computer requirements. Half of the computers do not work in our unit areas. Each unit with 75 Soldiers or more should be assigned at IT person and each Soldier should be issued a government laptop so that they can do their job. Also, all classes should have a download option and upload because it is impossible to do many of the DL without using tons of bandwidth.

**********Special Duty Pay
Special Duty Pay should be extended not only to MOS positions but also to leadership. I spend an excess of at least six hours per week performing military duties. I am told that I can submit a 1380 for points but this takes time. It should be automatic that in certain positions such as 1SG, platoon sergeant, XO, and commander be given an increased amount of pay each month. My husband calls the Army Reserves my "volunteerism" because there is so little pay and so much work that is expected to be done. I believe that if I were better compensated, my family would be more supportive of me being in the military.

1. No more boards to be a nco it should be a test on your mos and ability to lead in every branch. 2. Restructure the pay system so all soldiers get paid what they deserve. 3. Stop waisting money on dumb crap as far as paying to much for stuff. How does the military pay upward 2 grand for a ar 15 when a civilian can get one for 800 only diff is semi auto with no burst can't tell me that the components for burst cost $800 to $1000. Just an ex they over pay for everything.

Every enlistment is a 5 year active commitment. Oh you want to go Reserve or Guard, first two years of enlistments are with an active duty unit then your last three are with your States Reserve/Guard unit. This would rapidly grow the skill level of Reserve/Guard units and lessen the training curve and APFT issues.

Get rid of CIF. Every recruit gets an initial issue and it's theirs to maintain for the length of enlistment. If they separate early turn in all you issue, if you go the length of your initial contract keep your issue.

1. Budgeting: A unit keeps 50% of it's "surplus" funds at the end of every fiscal year, and does NOT suffer a "penalty" to it's allocated budget for having "gone over". ie: if unit X asks for a 1 mil budget, and was "awarded" a 1 mil budget, and it only used .8 mil the year before, then it has 1.1 mil to run with the next fiscal year. If Surplus >= 25% of actual spent budget at any point of the year, unit loses any "benefit" they have and only receive enough "new" monies to reach the requested budget. IE: It's December. They were supposed to spend 1/4 of their budget. They have a 30% surplus in the account because of great frugality. They're not gonna "keep" their surplus, they're only getting "topped off" - a "check & balance" to help ensure that units don't start writing astronomical budget requests... (and as usual, waiverable so that oddball conditions like requesting a massive summer training budget can slip through)
2. Have the corporations pay their own R&D, and sell stuff to the military "at cost +X% (a reasonable number, may even be 100% - so an aircraft with 1 million in parts would cost the DoD no more than $2 million each). Using my USAF background, the F35 would still "most likely" be an affordable aircraft if the billions of dollars in R&D behind it wasn't being added into the 200 aircraft that the military's gonna buy right now. If "R&D" costs are an issue (smaller company trying to break in), there can be separate subsidies handed out by DoD.
3. Reexamine the overall "Servicemember compensation" package and apply it, universally, to all Government jobs - House Representatives could be, say, O7s, Senators O9s, Cabinet Leaders O8-O10, President O11, IRS Grunt E3, Supervising Park Ranger E8, etc. This way, when the Civvies need a pay raise, the Servicemembers get one too, I mean, we're all serving our country in various ways, correct?

1. Realign the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 4 Star will be Chairman. Each Branch will be a 3 Star. Each branch will have 1 SR Enlisted Advisor. Each Branch will have a "rotation" for Chairman every 3 years along with each branch. Once completed with their tour they retire. No "shuffling" around. 2nd and 3rd order effects with this will trickle down for appropriate rank.
2. It was said in another post, but "revamp" the acquisition process. Get "rid" of the "Military Industrial Complex". Any and all services and products will be American made by Americans in America.
3. 1 standardized uniform (utility/duty) for ALL services. Dress uniforms can stay branch specific.

1) No more wasting printer paper on 2404s and 5988s for weekly PMCS when no faults are being annotated.
2) No more than 1 additional duty per Soldier.
3) RFID tags on all equipment. No more pencil whipped inventories. Every sensitive item gets scanned every month. All others scanned annually.

go back to the Woodland Camouflage BDU's & Black Leather Boots, reinstate Road Guard Vests, & keep the PT Standards and MOS Restrictions as they are

Civilian validation for job experience (certifications, more applicable college credits, union acknowledgement, etc.)

Require all civilians to spend a term of service in no less than the national guard or reserves in order to earn citizenship (local born or not), but let them still volunteer.

Get rid of FSRs and other contracted support and let us control our own systems again. If your personnel can't get the job done than train them better and don't simply accept when they claim to not be proficient.

(1) LIK for Reserve Soldiers living 40 Miles or more away from unit footprint. (2) no age limits for becoming a warrant officer. (3) Berets in garrison PCs in the field.

Educate all members of the armed forces in the U.S. Constitution and The Bill of rights. Remove all Muslim Solders from our Armed Forces. Remove from political office immediately those that are at work destabilizing this country and those who are seeking to weaken our Unite States Armed Forces.