Pressure on Soldiers completing SSD

Education. we have to educate our troops on the importance of NCOES schools if they are serious about their military career and want to advanced to the next higher rank. We have to get them out of the old mind-set and into the new Army way of doing business, this will require constant reminders, education and counseling.

Personally I think a lot of NCOs and Soldiers are wavering on the SSD until the Army figures out who they are gonna keep and who will hit the streets. Uncertainty often breeds contempt and or laziness, the ones that want to continue serving and climbing the ranks will do the right thing. Just drive on with what you are doing brother and hopefully it will sink in to the NCOs to get off their asses and do what is needed. "Treat 'Em Rough!!"

So I ran into this awhile ago but at the time SSD was still open enroll what I did was sit down for Two days at lunch and knock out whatever SSD my soldiers were supposed to be doing for their rank. Then when I completed it for myself I used the fact that I would not ask/make them do anything I haven't/wouldn't do myself talk. This worked out for most of my Soldiers the one's that it didn't work for I counseled because SSD is now a requirement to go to NCOES. Some people will counsel and then put a bar on a Soldier because he is not doing his job with is completing the Course then once they complete the course and the first review for the bar comes then have the commander remove it. I'm not a fan of that by have seen that work also.