Posted on Oct 27, 2015
Time wasting and the military? The Cost Of Treating Troops As Free Labor Providers
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The writer offers a pretty refreshing look at the "15min prior to the 15min prior" unwritten rule we have the military. I think it's definitely true the cost of staying late comes at a price; of morale and retention of otherwise good service members.
I remember my days under a particularly zealour commander who kept our whole company regularly during the week till about 21 or 2200. I remember an early release Friday was at 1930. Needless to say it reflected in the companies morale which quickly tanked.
Anyway, give it a read? How's your experience with this issue? What do you think of this?
http://taskandpurpose.com/the-cost-of-treating-troops-as-free-labor-providers/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=tp-facebook&utm_campaign=culture
I remember my days under a particularly zealour commander who kept our whole company regularly during the week till about 21 or 2200. I remember an early release Friday was at 1930. Needless to say it reflected in the companies morale which quickly tanked.
Anyway, give it a read? How's your experience with this issue? What do you think of this?
http://taskandpurpose.com/the-cost-of-treating-troops-as-free-labor-providers/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=tp-facebook&utm_campaign=culture
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I think we have all experienced this at one point or another. 1700 roles around and that last minute tasking finally makes it way down the pipe and there we are until 2100-2200 maybe even later cleaning weapons or rearranging a connex, maybe the motor pool line wasn't straight. But the point is that it could've all been taken care of before 1700. More recently in The last 3 months I've spent searching vehicles 5 days a week. Doesn't sound that bad right? Well let me enlighten you. Night shift for example. PT starts at 1600. PT for about an hour then be at the motor pool by 1830 to start getting our trucks ready. Pick up our ammo and weapons and other gear then be at guard mount by 2000. Brief usual last about 10 mins if nothing important needs to be put out. Then finally we get our search points at 2100 usually 15 mins early so we relieve our fellow MPs. Then we search until 0500 until our relieve replaces us. After doing the reverse of above I get home by 0630 if I'm lucky. Do the math and that's 15 hours a day. Get home go to bed, wake up, do it all over again. For 3 months, 75 hours a week no three days or four days. No holidays. I was lucky enough to always have my 2 days off. But we are so low on man power that one person had to take leave for surgery then we had multiple people working 6 days with 1 day off. Now while doing this. We are still getting called from our chain of command to turn in IA certificates or handle administrative things during the day. Want to know how fast soldiers can stop caring? Pretty damn quickly. Now throw in the fact that people are married and have children. A family to take care of. Then the unit wonders why no one wants to reenlist. Stop treating soldiers like numbers...
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I had a rule in my squadron. If I'm more than 5 mins late to any meeting, either start without me to share information as needed or leave and we will reconvene at another time.
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I just came across this article, I thought it brought up a lot of great points. In fact, it pointed out a lot of the reasons why I am not re-enlisting.
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