WALL-TO-WALL COUNSELING FM 22-102

You have a few people who just don't like the answer they're being given. More often, their leaders are poor leaders or misinformed about policies. Leaders don't know because they've flown through the ranks faster than they can learn about being a good leader. You have people making the E7 list in 7 years, and CSMs with 16 or 17 years in the Army. That's just not enough time to learn about Army programs and encounter many leadership challenges that force them to add new tools to their tool box.
This isn't just my opinion, a recent study by Rand Institute concluded that NCOs who fast track have greater dissatisfaction in their subordinates, higher rates of administrative discharges, discipline problems, and lower rates of retention.

When soldiers no longer fear punishment, it’s easy to understand how they get to this point. NCO’s have been stripped of the power of intimidation.

Intimidation use to be easy. NCO’s and Officers established their position of intimidation by picking a few brand new recruits and totally break them down: physically and internally, visible enough that everyone has an opportunity to see them.

If you don’t give your NCO’s the authority to lead, then how do you expect us to lead?

This is simply my opinion. I am not a subject matter expert, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night!

Just dropped in a SGT Murphy comic. Hope you enjoy CPT Ray Gilmore.

COL Mikel J. Burroughs,Brig Gen Jim Jaeger,CPT Jack Durish,Maj Marty Hogan,SPC Christopher Smith,Lt Col Charlie Brown,Cpl Scott McCarroll,SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth,SP5 Mark Kuzinski,SPC Mark Brown,SGT Elizabeth Scheck,PFC Jacob Wrubel,MSgt Ken "Airsoldier" Collins-Hardy,SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL,SSG William Jones,TSgt Joe C.,SSgt Robert Marx,SGT Robert George, LTC Stephen F.

It all starts at the top, if the officers and senior NCO's appointed over us are not willing to lead, be leaders, enforce discipline, hold people accountable, and are too worried about offending someone, then you get what we have with the E-4 and others like him looking for ways to justify their lack of respect for both rank and the authority appointed over them.