What do you believe is the biggest waste of time for Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines?

1. PowerPoint = PainPoint. My soldiers and I wasted countless hours building and editing slides. The slides can't just be good enough, they must be perfect. (Unrealistic Expectations)
2. The meeting before the meeting. (Lack of focus. Just hold one meeting if the meeting is needed)
3. The formation before the formation. (Lack of trust, just say the time. Be there or be late)
4. Waiting for the end of day formation to get the notes from the end of day leader's meeting. (For some situations it may be needed if something is hot early morning, but it should not be the norm. Also, PT formation is just 12 or 13 hours away)

But the biggest waste of soldier time I've seen was a soldier in Afghanistan tasked to check vehicles on the road during PT time to make sure vehicles on the road have a tag authorizing movement. That's a soldier not doing PT or mission.

The one thing that bothered me during my time in was sitting in the motorpool waiting for formation. So instead of just having my troops sit there, we would hold "Tailgate Time". Sort of like SGT's Time but didn't have to be all training. We used as a time to talk and to train. We were still stuck in the motorpool but at least it was a way to make the best out of the 15 minutes you had to kill waiting on formation.

Following a meticulous checklist for SRP and have the first civilian in the process rip out pages because they were not "invented here", to be re done three stations in.