Posted on Feb 26, 2016
How often are you conducting periodic counselings with your Soldiers in the reserve component?
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I understand there are a lot of differences in the active Army and reserve components, so I'd like to see what people think about this. I've always been a regulations type leader, and to my knowledge it is a quarterly (at minimum) task. Is there a different clause for reserve component Soldiers? My personal opinion is to counsel initially, quarterly, and as often as possible in between.
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Conduct initial counseling's and quarterly at a minimum. It seems like I've been counseling Soldiers more frequently for NCOES, APFT, inefficiency.... NDMOSQ, GOVCC delinquency. I counsel as need but stick to quarterly counseling's for professional development.
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Exactly, events will dictate additional counseling. I'd rather counseling for good stuff that reflects well on boards or evals
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I can count on one hand how many times I received an initial counseling. It is huge. When in doubt you had something to go off.
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I counsel my NCO's quarterly and if an occasion deems it necessary in between for example disciplinary counseling's or achievement counseling's. And unfortunately my NCOs do monthly counseling's for the UNSAT Soldiers and any APFT or HT/WT needed for that month. Monthly counseling's just don't seem necessary since you only see them two days a month typically.
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Sadly, I can honestly say I can count the number of times I have received periodic counseling on one hand. I do conduct periodic counseling for my troops per regulation. There has been only one exception. OCT 14 I started phase II ILE for 8 months in lieu of BA. Sometime between SEP BA and OCT they assigned a SSG to me. No one notified me. We did not have BA in JUN 15 and this soldier was not at BA in JUL. So the first time I saw this guy and found out he was "my soldier" was in August when they told me that I had to write an NCOER for him that was due in SEP. Apparently he had just been coming to BA and sitting around because no one told him what to do. He'd volunteered to be a range NCOIC during weapons qual and helped setup for the APFT and that was about it.
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