How do your soldiers interact with highers?

If one if my guys goes to someone else, and I find out, I just ask them why they didn't come to me. If there is a problem that have with me I attempt to fix it. My guys need to know that their best interest is my number one prioriry.

Soldiers and service members should not be concerned about speaking to anyone in the COC. Asa senior I always thought one of two things, Soldiers were hiding something or they were ordered not to speak. In either case it is wrong. If there are issues they should start with squad leaders and if unresolved elevated. But everyone in a unit should communicate. As leaders we should have no fear of what our Team might say, as we should be doing what is right.

You need to get to the root of the problem. Soldiers need to have faith and confidence that their leadership has their best interest at heart. Soldiers are like flowing water, they follow the path of least resistance. They may have had little to no leadership take care of them in the past and now they go to where they think they can get it.

"The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership." - Colin Powell GEN (R), 12th CJCS and Former SECSTATE