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My battle and I just conducted our first class this past January for Treatment of Persons and Reprisals which involved PowerPoint, open discussion, video for bullying, 15 - 25 minute skit on hazing, with Q&A. While a lot of people to include our Command loved it, I'm curious if there are other class ideas that other EOLs had and would like to share.
For reference we just completed the EOLC last November, became Company EOLs in December and done our first class while in Afghanistan. While I really enjoy the program I'd love some suggestions and ideas.
For reference we just completed the EOLC last November, became Company EOLs in December and done our first class while in Afghanistan. While I really enjoy the program I'd love some suggestions and ideas.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
Also contact your local Red Cross office for reconnections workshops. Free to the military, led by licensed mental health providers. The one on communication skills might be helpful
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Our EOL just gave a class on the importance of communication in regards to not just leading soldiers, but EO procedures as well. it was very informative and it makes you wonder how many cases of discriminatory acts could be eliminated with basic communication.
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Communication and treating someone as you want to be treated. I had this discussion with a few other NCOs whereas that's what it's boiled down too.
You're completely correct!
You're completely correct!
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Had some fun while in EOLC. It was the exercise where all of a specific ethnic group left the room and everyone else wrote stuff on a white board. So the instructor asked all of the persons of African descent to leave the room. All leave except 1 black guy. The instructors are like "hey, did you not hear us?", to which he replied "I'm from Guyana. That's in South America."
Friggen hilarious seeing the EO instructors get "caught" assuming ethnicities and such. No harm done, he stepped out anyway for the exercise, a good mini-lesson within the main lesson.
Friggen hilarious seeing the EO instructors get "caught" assuming ethnicities and such. No harm done, he stepped out anyway for the exercise, a good mini-lesson within the main lesson.
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OMG, I would have been on the floor. Only thing that would have been better would have been a caucasian South African walking out.
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SSG Robert Webster
CW2 (Join to see) WOW just WOW! - "Friggen hilarious seeing the EO instructors get "caught" assuming ethnicities and such." The instructor did say "persons of African descent," correct?
I got a mini-lesson out of this, that some are either ill-educated or are fastidiously clinging to political correctness.
Here is a lesson for some - If the soldier was of Melanesian or Australian Aboriginal 'descent,' then the instructor would have been caught out. Ethnicity, descent, and origin ARE related, BUT they are not the same. This would have been an excellent time to educate the class on this matter and explain the differences.
You, your classmates, and the instructor could have learned that a large majority of the people of Guyana are descended from people that were brought there as slaves or in indentured servitude and that is approximately 80% of the population.
Though I do find it funny that Filipino women will approach my wife and start speaking to her in Tagalog. My wife is of Amerindian and European descent and her only relationship with the Filipino people would be through Spain.
I got a mini-lesson out of this, that some are either ill-educated or are fastidiously clinging to political correctness.
Here is a lesson for some - If the soldier was of Melanesian or Australian Aboriginal 'descent,' then the instructor would have been caught out. Ethnicity, descent, and origin ARE related, BUT they are not the same. This would have been an excellent time to educate the class on this matter and explain the differences.
You, your classmates, and the instructor could have learned that a large majority of the people of Guyana are descended from people that were brought there as slaves or in indentured servitude and that is approximately 80% of the population.
Though I do find it funny that Filipino women will approach my wife and start speaking to her in Tagalog. My wife is of Amerindian and European descent and her only relationship with the Filipino people would be through Spain.
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