What is your biggest pet peeve?

The officers and senior enlisted that allow Soldiers to fall into formation in a multitude of different uniforms. One person with gloves, one with a field jacket, one wearing a fleece cap. It's the "come as you are" Army.

Time thieves. Time thieves are my greatest irk as Soldiers who have time to write frivolous articles about issues they have absolutely no experience or training or self-development in that area are writing just for attention. If you put your energy to becoming an entrepreneur you can have a solid paycheck when you are ready to get out. Time thieves are attention seekers and write articles about stuff such as "hands in pockets." IMO

I would have a few that I would have to put down:

1. Punctuality. As a troop-Learn how to friggin' read a watch. I do understand, even though it irks me, that when I am on the "time" of my supervisors-they are on time when they get there, I am there on time-at the appointed time. Sometimes it is out of their control, sometimes they forget, sometimes the attitude is "they can wait". If it is feasible, the polite thing to do is make a notification of ETA, so that for example, someone could get a cup of joe. Just saying.

2. The E1/3 and the O1 (not prior E) know it all. As a young troop, try and silence (I would say shut, but not trying to offend anyone) your mouth and open your mind-you went to high school or college, fantastic, now we are in U-pick-a-stan doing real world work, pay attention. You really do not know it all. You know the bare minimum from whatever basic training and follow-on schooling you have attended. {Caveat to this is that there are some young troops and some 2ndLts who have real honest to God life experience that is relevant}. But for the most part, if you will pay attention to the NCOs and really learn the job from the ground up as a troop, and as a young officer, if you will pay attention to the senior Os, and to the SNCOs, your career will flourish. We are on the same team, if I teach you to be a better Officer, or a better troop, then OUR entire military benefits. BOOM.

3. Uniform. Unless in the field, you should take every effort to wear the uniform as if you are representing perfection. You are. Our brothers and sisters paid for that uniform with their blood. Honor that, you represent them and their sacrifice.

4. Be honest/have integrity. If you screw up, own it. Shocker-not the first person to make a mistake. Learn and move on.

Squeaky boots.

"Ranger rolled" patrol caps.

Ill-fitting uniforms.  Example:  Too tiny jackets, pants too large, hats squeezing off circulation to the brain, etc. It's all in the first chapter of AR 670-1.  It shows that someone treats buying the clothes they have to wear every single day as something that is not deserving of forethought and giving those people responsibility frightens me.

My biggest AR 670-1 peeve is that the uniforms the Army most commonly wears, the ACU's and the ASU's, aren't covered by AR 670-1. The "Uniform regulation" does not cover the most commonly worn uniforms..

Hands in pockets, SGT.

I have so many, but probably tops would be a badly worn beret. I was never a fan of Army-wide berets in the first place, but if you're going to wear it, wear it right!