Posted on Dec 19, 2013
What do you think this new soldier should do or feel with their certain circumstance?
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A soldier arrived to a new unit and from day one this soldier has only recieved negative feedbacks back to back from the moment they arrive. Within their section everyone (civilians and soldiers) complained about the supervisors and how there is no justice. The new soldier found out that majority of the junior enlisted are either purposly failing their APFT when their previous ones were almost at 300 or their ETS-ing because they couldnt take it anymore. The civilians are purposly retiring or finding other jobs that would take them away from their section. Now the section that new soldier is in required at least 22 soldier are down to 4 soldiers and now on every shift in January and only gets 9 days off in that month. What do you think this soldier should do?
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Posted 11 y ago
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I see a lot of people calling the IG. Keep in mind that the IG is there for a violation of policy or regulation. Not for poor leadership. If your leadership fails to do their job, i.e. throws away your promotion packet and fails to counsel you why you are not being promoted, then yes you can call the IG. If your leadership is horrible and makes foolish decisions that adversely impact the soldiers in the unit they can not do anything. IG will only make recommendations to the higher unit's leadership. They will only act if clear violations are taking place like a SHARP issue or inappropriate use of authority.
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Run? Call the IG? Slap someone with a shiny collar? If all this is true, there is some officer (or several) asleep at the wheel somewhere.
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A1C Michael David Severson
Ditto on the IG... write a good report that summarizes all the pertinent issues, and go from there. If that does not work, then try the Congressional Representative for that district, or the senators for that state, assuming it might be Texas, etc...
Also, tell others that are anticipating quitting or are complaining to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness by either cosigning a letter to the IG/Congress, etc. or writing their own to strengthen the matter at hand.
Also, tell others that are anticipating quitting or are complaining to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness by either cosigning a letter to the IG/Congress, etc. or writing their own to strengthen the matter at hand.
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I would always remember that every unit commander has an open door policy. It is there for a reason. This would be a good reason. If that fails you can go to the IG but you must have tangible evidence of misconduct. If someone is just a bad leader they will not be able to address that but only make recommendations to the units leadership. You should have a 1SG that is there to help. If he is not there for you the CSM may need to get involved. At some point there should be someone that cares. I would recommend a sensing session for that unit in question.
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