Our promotion system and methodology appears backwards, and it may be time to slow down promotions to allow NCOs to grasp certain tasks before they upgrade. Instead of selecting, training, educating and promoting I suggest we need to consider first training in operational assignments and then we annually test soldiers for MOS proficiency, externally. When an established level of proficiency is attained then promote, and send for basic, and later advanced, professnal military education. Sprinkle in certifications and higher education that matches their career field andno need to add a cutesy label, just call it THE NCO development program. Besides simply reordering the recipe, but this time we add in the missing ingredient....

https://ncoguide.substack.com/p/what-went-wrong-with-mos-testing

So I have a soldier that has a warrant out for his arrest for missing a court date, even though it was the courts fault because they told him it was over video when it wasn’t. We are supposed to leave to ntc tomorrow, and the commander is saying he doesn’t care he’s going to ntc because there isn’t another court date, regardless of the fact he has a warrant. What’s the regulation for going to training while pending civilian court, as well as having an arrest warrant

I had a ssg that targeted me and lied to come after me. I have medical issues that were recently diagnosed. When I would go to a medical appointment she would lose her shit. When the effects of this medical condition affected my work she would write a counseling for me having a medical condition. I am in the process of getting medboarded, but before I was removed from under her command, it got to a point where she was calling the cg hotline making up lines to go after my husband. Editing text messages to try and get me in trouble. Then would laugh at me having medical issues. Now before these medical issues got severe I was working my ass off. I’m talking doing every task, and getting everything that needed to be done, done and working 18 hour days sometimes. But since she didn’t like me, anything I did was a problem. Now I’m not perfect. I had time management issues, but I’d never just not show up to work or anything unless there was an appointment or something, which eventually became a lot because no one could figure out what was wrong with me until recently. But she was toxic. More than once I had offered to discuss our issues like adults as we still have to work together. She told me “lol write it in your counseling” It led to me being removed from the squad because no one wanted it to go higher than the company I guess. And not matter who I reported it to, it got dismissed back to the company. Then I had to be removed from the platoon because she went and stole my PC, and when I tried to handle it she wanted to play dumb and say I’m lying because I’m intimidated by her. For some reason they allowed her to do my NCOER. And all she did in it the NCOER was lie and be rate me saying I was the toxic leadership. That I couldn’t perform any tasks unsupervised, and that I was malingering. And a bunch of other things. All untrue. I refused to sign it but I’m not sure what steps to take next because although my command say they believe me, since she out ranks me, it does not seem to matter what the truth is or what they believe because they do nothing about it. And now I’m not sure what to say because my 1sg wants to talk to me tomorrow and tell him why I won’t sign my NCOER.

In the future if I ever get to a point where I can’t deal with the disrespect at that moment am I able to explain to him why I feel disrespected and walk away from him to keep me from getting in trouble?

Been browsing reddit for a while and I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I'm also not sure where else to ask it.

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I found an app called 'Defensive Positions' on the apple store. Its good for infantry, armor and engineers in knowing how many defensive positions the engineers can dig for them to stay alive. It works, I checked out its math

Hello all, thanks in advance for any help. I was a sponsor to a Soldier in a promotion board, and our BN CSM started out briefing us of some new chapterable offenses, making it sound as if it was a memo from SMA Dailey. Offenses included having a P3 profile for 90+ days, being command referred to ASAP, pissing hot, etc. Well, my newly promotable Soldier went and did some things and I have to counsel him now. I've been searching for this particular memo on Google, AKO, army times, every place I can think of, all to no avail. I'd really like to see this memo, and have it as a backup to my counseling. Can anyone link me to it?

Not sure if there are any Navy NCOs on this sub, but I'll throw this out there anyway. I'm a greenside corpsman so my treatment as a sailor is somewhat overshadowed by my life with the Marine Corps. I get to see how they treat their NCOs (E-4's and E-5's specifically), and for better or worse, they are given a larger amount of respect as well as freedom to lead. Now, Im not saying it's a ton of privelege (I think the DoD has been undercutting lower level leadership for the past 20 years) but it's more than those of us in Uncle Sam's Yacht Club enjoy.

On the job, Petty Officer Third Classes (E-4s), get treated like Army Specialists/Senior Airmen, despite being NCO's. Rarely given a chance or a billet to lead. Always being undercut by our seniors when we want to correct a junior sailor. However, the moment we screw up suddenly the "you're supposed to be a leader" business comes out. It's like a switchblade argument they can pop out at will to punish us, and then retract when we need them to back us up.

I wasn't a push button Petty Officer. It took me almost 4 years to earn my crow and it's bullshit that even though I've built up the skills to lead I get nothing for my hard work. I understand that CoC affects everything, but I know I am in no way speaking only for myself on this issue. The Chief's Mess needs to give the junior Petty Officers the authority necessary to lead, to back us up when we need to correct an issue.

And why is it that the moment we hit E-5 we get relegated to administrator status? Once again I watch the Marines (Im not sure but maybe the Army does it the same way, correct me if I'm wrong) let their Sergeants still perform their job AS WELL as take on greater leadership responsibilities. They don't force them to do strictly deskwork, and this gives you more respect from your juniors in my opinion if you can still prove that you know your MOS any day of the week. It's a gradual change. It takes work and thought on the part of the senior leaders but it usually molds Marines into capable SNCO's. The Navy just likes taking their PO3's whom they've given little to no way to stand apart from one another and then suddenly making them act like the day shift manager at a McDonalds.

Am I crazy for feeling this way? Do the other services have this problem? Was it always this way? If anyone has any insight I'd like to know.

Army Times published a list of 7 ways to improve NCOs, yet are they on track? Are these relevant, or is it just someones perception? They listed them as:

1. REDUCE MANDATORY TRAINING
2. INCREASE RELEVANCE
3. MORE UNIT-LEVEL TRAINING
4. INCREASE THE CHALLENGE
5. REVIEW DISTRIBUTED LEARNING (TO IDENTIFY AND FIX PROBLEMS)
6. PROVIDE MORE TIME (FOR COMPUTER BASED CLASSES)
7. PROVIDE MORE RESOURCES

What are your thoughts?

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How are budget cuts impacting noncommissioned officers? We often here about how the big Army is affected, how about those in squads and platoon, any impact being felt locally?