Should the "School of Soldier" name be used in a less negative way?

2018-06-08T16:04:05-04:00

Should the "School of Soldier" name be used in a less negative way? For example it is normally associated with a weekend day used as corrective training / punishment for Soldiers. Given the state and lack of basic Soldiering skills personnel are coming out of training with could it be used as a title for the Soldiers to be taught these basic skills. Skills would include D&C, CBRNE tasks, etc, basically the items that we say should be taught during Sergeant's time training but don't get to due to the list of CTLs being long and always adjusting?

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 8 at 2018 5:32 PM

2018-06-08T17:32:28-04:00

I have never heard of that.

Response by SGT David T. made Jun 11 at 2018 9:39 AM

2018-06-11T09:39:24-04:00

That term has always had a very specific very negative meaning for me. In every instance I have heard it used was some NCO with an over inflated ego on a power trip making their subordinates do very dumb things. So it is best to avoid terms with that level of baggage. Now getting to the core of your post, if Soldiers don't have the basic skills, then their leaders have failed them. I may have been out a while but if I remember correctly, the leaders' entire job is to train, lead, and take care of their troops. If the command wants to dictate sergeant's time that is fine. Plenty of other hours during a normal work week that can be used to train troops.

Response by SGM (R) Antonio Brown made Jun 20 at 2018 6:10 AM

2018-06-20T06:10:26-04:00

In Korea the term was associated with Soldiers who had a violation of some type and had to report to the BDE HQ on Saturday with their Leadership.

Response by SSG Ted Strachan made Sep 28 at 2019 10:44 AM

2019-09-28T10:44:54-04:00

For me, it is a negative. I was stationed at Ft. Hood in 84-85, 1/68 ADA 1st Cav. We had just entered the field for annual Redeye missile live-fire and were assigned to guard duty at the Redeye AHA. It has been raining for several days. Our illustrious Bn Cdr came out for a look-see and decided he just couldn't abide the presence of mud on boots, but saying nothing at the time. Upon our return from the field we were hit with two days of SotS because we did not look like recruiting posters. It was stupid and senseless and did nothing but demoralize his troops (who by the way had performed admirably during the live fire). To add insult, our SotS was all D&C, no other training of any kind involved. Idiotic.