Posted on Nov 10, 2013
Are we teaching the basic knowledge to our soldiers?
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Basic classes like know how to read the ERB or How to navigate and use AKO. Those are little things where we can engage with Soldiers and teach them as soon as the enter in the Army. We don't have to way for them to be E4 or above to start teaching them.
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Posted 11 y ago
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One of the things I have implemented in the last year is utilizing 4 hours in the morning on Thursday for sergeants time training to reinforce basic soldier skills and mos competency. In the 4 hours after lunch I perform NCO professional development for my team leaders and senior E4s. I work on core competences and instruct them on tools they can use to effectively train and lead soldiers. The results have been positive and increased success as SOM and Promotion boards.
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SFC Rocky Gannon
SSG Whisler great job, I believe we have let soldiers down by not ensuring that they are trained soldiers, not just in their job but just the basic things,
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I know I got a serious wake up call when I was going to the board about how messed up my erb was and I had no idea. So I take time personally to go over the erb with each of my soldiers.
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SGT Larry A,
The answer is simply NO!! Not even about the ERB are we teaching young soldiers to be soldiers? No, NCO's are failing to teach basic soldier skills like land nav, weapon qualification (only On the range) no dime and washer on a training day to make them better, what about what to do if your weapon malfunctions, test them tomorrow see how many fail that BASIC soldier task, NCO's are promoted so fast now and we can't even get them to go to school and learn, So how can they teach or say something to a soldier that they are not willing to do,
Ok Soap box put up!
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