Posted on Jun 5, 2014
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I have always disliked being in reactive mode and trying to adapt, or make the best, of some change coming down from above. So lets take a second and try to be proactive and consider changes you would make if you were in charge, or had the ear of our military leadership, what would you do to make your service and our military better? Why? I think there are some excellent ideas out there and this could be an excellent conduit to share those ideas?
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Training. Real training.
Enough of the SHARP, EO, MRT, etc (I agree with this training, but for TPU's these classes can end up eating most of our training time).
Let me get my Soldiers out doing what their MOS entails. For my 12Ns, let them get out and push dirt, build roads, haul dirt, etc. For my 91Bs/Ls, let them actually fix the stuff my 12Ns break.
Give us time to get our Soldiers out performing BWT. Each Soldier should be completely competent in a small, dismounted team. I think one dismounted, BWT-based FTX a year would be amazing.
Get rid of the politics, to some degree. I hate seeing things where politics push past the regulations and permit incompetent Soldiers to continue on their current path without punative measures.
Speed up the S1 channels. They are SLLLLLLOOOOOOWWWWWW. These new tracking systems should help speed things up, but you would think paper packets where still being sent via wagon train.
Reinforce the standards. We have become a bit lax. I am not talking about the complete garrison mentallity, but really look at the standard of performance you expect from Soldiers and units. Help develop a plan to get units up to snuff performance wise. The ARFORGEN cycle is supposed to assist with this, but I feel that it is missing a lot of the correct emphasis during Refit, TR1, and TR2.
A uniform that works. Functionality should be key number 1. Camo pattern selection aside. The uniform needs to be durable, functional, and must be a solid quality. The ACUs are attrocious. The velcro wears quickly ( I have noticed in recent ACU batches that the velcro is MUCH worse than what I was issued), the uniform fit is a bit of a miss. They wearout and stain way too easily.
Reinforcement of good Soldiers and good leaders. Some of the best leaders I have seen have not been supported. Some have been hung out to dry for making a tough decision that was based in logic and the information they had at the time. That breeds indecision. We can't afford indecision.
Enough of the SHARP, EO, MRT, etc (I agree with this training, but for TPU's these classes can end up eating most of our training time).
Let me get my Soldiers out doing what their MOS entails. For my 12Ns, let them get out and push dirt, build roads, haul dirt, etc. For my 91Bs/Ls, let them actually fix the stuff my 12Ns break.
Give us time to get our Soldiers out performing BWT. Each Soldier should be completely competent in a small, dismounted team. I think one dismounted, BWT-based FTX a year would be amazing.
Get rid of the politics, to some degree. I hate seeing things where politics push past the regulations and permit incompetent Soldiers to continue on their current path without punative measures.
Speed up the S1 channels. They are SLLLLLLOOOOOOWWWWWW. These new tracking systems should help speed things up, but you would think paper packets where still being sent via wagon train.
Reinforce the standards. We have become a bit lax. I am not talking about the complete garrison mentallity, but really look at the standard of performance you expect from Soldiers and units. Help develop a plan to get units up to snuff performance wise. The ARFORGEN cycle is supposed to assist with this, but I feel that it is missing a lot of the correct emphasis during Refit, TR1, and TR2.
A uniform that works. Functionality should be key number 1. Camo pattern selection aside. The uniform needs to be durable, functional, and must be a solid quality. The ACUs are attrocious. The velcro wears quickly ( I have noticed in recent ACU batches that the velcro is MUCH worse than what I was issued), the uniform fit is a bit of a miss. They wearout and stain way too easily.
Reinforcement of good Soldiers and good leaders. Some of the best leaders I have seen have not been supported. Some have been hung out to dry for making a tough decision that was based in logic and the information they had at the time. That breeds indecision. We can't afford indecision.
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Throw away the way the Army does assignments.
Make everything online have commanders and S1s post and Soldiers and leaders apply for jobs and duty locations. The Army can step in and make incentives for locations or positions that do not get enough soldiers to apply. I am a firm believer that when we compete for positions, market influences will get more people in jobs that are a better fit for them so they will be happier and work harder. No system can work better than any system we could come up with.
Make everything online have commanders and S1s post and Soldiers and leaders apply for jobs and duty locations. The Army can step in and make incentives for locations or positions that do not get enough soldiers to apply. I am a firm believer that when we compete for positions, market influences will get more people in jobs that are a better fit for them so they will be happier and work harder. No system can work better than any system we could come up with.
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I agree that will need to happen sometimes but I think it would be less than 10% of the time. Now the Army tells 100% of Soldiers when and where to move.
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No taxes for service members. Improvement in VA health care system.
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