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2014-01-14T10:53:59-05:00 2014-01-14T10:53:59-05:00 1SG Steven Stankovich 37823

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Not sure what you are looking for here SSG Keith.  Do you mean pro-family as considering the unit a family?  Or pro-family in regards to marital status of their members?  Please drill down what you are looking for so we can better provide you some insight.

2014-01-14T11:09:50-05:00 2014-01-14T11:09:50-05:00 MSG Brad Sand 248640

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Some are, some are not. A chain of command is a group of people, with their own needs and desires. In my opinion, the good ones are pro family, but in the end, there comes a point where mission trumps everything and normally that means the family has to suck it up.

2014-09-20T12:02:23-04:00 2014-09-20T12:02:23-04:00 MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca 248686

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>If you are referring to the old mantra of &quot;mission first, people always&quot;, its a tough call. I always tried to err on the side of family, and many of my colleagues - superiors and subordinates tried to do the same to create a comfortable command climate. By this I mean, unless we were doing a range qual or other annual type of event or training, letting the SM make up a UTA/MUTA for &quot;less than substantial&quot; reasons or time request. From my NG perspective, after 9/11 when OPTEMPO, training cycles, requirements, manning, deployments and pretty much the entire play book was re-written, &quot;mission first&quot; had to take priority. Family as a - and I use this term ever so delicately because I have one too - &quot;distractor&quot; for missing drills, training, alerts and deployments,, even with timely notification, really became a no-go at this station. Buy the time I retired I think things were loosening up a bit but not yet to the point where they were before 9/11.

2014-09-20T12:37:52-04:00 2014-09-20T12:37:52-04:00 CPT Mike M. 254271

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You can't ask a generalized question like that and expect a straightforward answer. Some are much more so than others.

2014-09-24T17:52:26-04:00 2014-09-24T17:52:26-04:00 SPC Mae Richardson 257376

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Mine was only if you were part of their club. I was National Guard so I know that that is not how a majority of military chain of commands are. My father's Regular Army chain of command was very pro-family. They allowed my father leave when my mother had 2 miscarriages in one year and even arranged for a chaplain to visit with them and food to be brought to us while my mother was recovering. It greatly depends on the circumstances and the people in your chain of command though.

2014-09-27T10:24:48-04:00 2014-09-27T10:24:48-04:00 TSgt Joshua Copeland 260771

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Depends on the Commander plan and simple. I have had ones trying to fast burn and it was "yes" to everything and damn how many hours it took and what rules were broken or bent to do it and others where they truly cared about family

2014-10-01T07:39:02-04:00 2014-10-01T07:39:02-04:00 TSgt Private RallyPoint Member 263593

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Some are and some aren't. I have had the honor of serving with or under both.

2014-10-03T13:54:24-04:00 2014-10-03T13:54:24-04:00 SGT Lynn Strezeski, DSc 269153

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The plural of Chain of Command is Chains of Command. Now you know.

2014-10-08T10:34:23-04:00 2014-10-08T10:34:23-04:00 SFC Melvin Brandenburg 6905668

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>As long as you remember you&#39;re married to the army first

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