Posted on Dec 9, 2013
Are leaders allowing soldiers to become complacent or less disciplined in Garrison?
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">It seems after over a decade of war some standards and
discipline fall to the way side after returning from a combat zone. I have seen
this in several units that I have been assigned to. Is this throughout the Army
due to Soldiers becoming comfortable with their first line leaders because of
situations they may have been involved in?</font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Calibri">It seems after over a decade of war some standards and
discipline fall to the way side after returning from a combat zone. I have seen
this in several units that I have been assigned to. Is this throughout the Army
due to Soldiers becoming comfortable with their first line leaders because of
situations they may have been involved in?</font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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My question would be this. If a standard was deemed unnecessary during wartime, when our military was performing it's primary mission, should it even be a standard? Why would you revert to where you were prior to "lessons learned"? That's how ineffectiveness, stagnancy, and regression happen.
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1SG Ernest Stull
I agree with you when I was in Desert Storm, before our units actual deployed soldiers who were on the verge of being discharged for failing to meet the weight standard, or the ones who were barred from reenlistment due to some mediocre failure to be the PT stud was now the greatest person on earth and he must go to combat, the regulations were completely tossed out the window. I was a first SGT. and it may have been wrong of me but when the war was over and we came back from the sand box I left those regulations out the window my judgement was that if the soldier was good enough to go and fight and die for his country I damn sure was not going to worry about his ability to lose the weight or not being able to meet all of the physical standards placed upon each and every soldier. Did I encourage each soldier to do his best damn straight, and if he got too far out of hand, I would still put a foot up his backside.
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