LTC Private RallyPoint Member 187261 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I have seen different units handle PCS/retirement/wedding/birth gifts differently. Some require everyone to put money into a pot every quarter to pay for them. Others pass around the hat and based off rank they put in a certain amount. Yet others everyone puts in same or whatever they want. And others require everyone to put in a once and done amount (essentially paying for their own gift).<br /><br />How does your unit do it? Do you agree with it? If not how would you improve it?<br /><br />I ask as I have seen some PCS within a year and not put in much money while others have been there for years and put in more money than they will ever receive. 2014-07-27T02:01:06-04:00 LTC Private RallyPoint Member 187261

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I have seen different units handle PCS/retirement/wedding/birth gifts differently. Some require everyone to put money into a pot every quarter to pay for them. Others pass around the hat and based off rank they put in a certain amount. Yet others everyone puts in same or whatever they want. And others require everyone to put in a once and done amount (essentially paying for their own gift).<br /><br />How does your unit do it? Do you agree with it? If not how would you improve it?<br /><br />I ask as I have seen some PCS within a year and not put in much money while others have been there for years and put in more money than they will ever receive.

2014-07-27T02:01:06-04:00 2014-07-27T02:01:06-04:00 SGT Jonathan Williams 187264

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>One unit had a private pass around the hat. This was the one I gave happily. Another unit would ask SPC and below to donate, junior NCOs had a "suggested amount" and SNCO/Officers had a "suggested amount". This was the one I gave to begrudgingly.<br /><br />I prefer asking a private to pass the hat around. No one is going to feel compelled that way. I did not prefer to have anyone pressured. I recognize that some people have challenges.

2014-07-27T02:10:41-04:00 2014-07-27T02:10:41-04:00 2014-07-27T02:01:06-04:00