Posted on Apr 18, 2018
What really pushes your patience when leading soldiers?
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This should be interesting. I would really like to know what some of your ''Pet Peeves" are when leading your troops. I'm a very patient person in general and known to have a "long fuze." However, certain behaviors such as a crap attitude, dirty ass barracks room, laziness, and plain out disrespect really top my list of times when I had to control myself and ''attempt'' to remain professional to the best of my ability.
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Lying. If a person doesn’t want to do something, tell me why. If a person botched a job, tell me. If you don’t know what or who or how, just say so. But don’t lie to me!
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That was the big one with me, too. I told every unit I led that even the very best of us will at some time or another make a huge mistake. But you just have to admit it and move on. Hiding or lying about it harms the unit and prevents us from examining procedures to see if there are ways to help ensure it doesn't happen again. So I told them I was willing to underwrite mistakes made in good faith, but not lying. You either have integrity or you don't. It's not a sliding scale.
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The big one for me is timeliness. If an airman can't grasp what effect being late, either to duty or with a tasker, has on other members in the unit, they are showing that they are selfish. That just doesn't fly with me. I'm not talking about the airman who occasionally oversleeps, or busts a deadline, I'm talking about the frequent abusers.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
I discharged an airman for "failure to go", i.e, consistently missing his work schedule.
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TSgt David L.
SFC (Join to see) - I usually wound up being late once a year. My bosses knew I hated being late enough that they never really said anything more than "good morning sleepy head".
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