Duties of a Non Commissioned officers

The Duties of an Nco

Duties of a NCO

As a Non Commissioned Officers we need to seek what is best for our soldiers. It is our duty to guide them through this Army process. How are we going to do this? By maintaining discipline, training soldiers and ensuring welfare.

Maintaining discipline, by ensuring that the soldiers are doing the right thing on and off duty like when we are in the motor pool and you see soldier not helping others to accomplish the assigned task. Ensure Preventive Maintenance Checks and Service are conducted by the book and ensuring that if they find a discrepancy to annotate in 5988's. We need to be more creative and find some other ways to keep them busy. Inspecting their rooms and making sure they are living like people and not Pigs. Monitoring not micromanaging what they do and who they hang out with in their free time, will only help prevent them from getting in to trouble. Control the underage drinking, but how we can accomplish this one if we have other Non Commissioned Officers promoting "not to get caught". We need to conduct every now and then some uniform inspections, in that way we can instill the habit in soldiers on having a fresh hair cut on Mondays, clean Army Combat Uniforms every day, and the necessary inspectable items. I think, and this is just an idea, but if we put one of soldiers in a Non Commissioned Officer position for a day, they would feel the weight of responsibilities a Non Commissioned Officer bares. At the same time we can start developing leaders at the early stage. They would also feel the pain of being a Non Commissioned Officer and see all the responsibilities we are given in order to maintain good order.

"Discipline is the foundation of everything!"

Training makes perfection. But how can we as Non Commissioned Officers start training our Joes if something more important appears out of the blue with more priority than training. We need to find more time or someone need to speak up and stop this! If we focus on platoon development, and start improving basic soldiering skills it would help them become outstanding Calvary Scouts. I need help myself. I know that we have soldiers that cannot learn by reading a book, we need hands on training. We need to get maps out of the supply cage, dust them off, conduct some map reading and map recon etc. Teach them on how to disassemble all weapon system that a Scout uses: 25mm, 249, 240c, and 9mm to mention some. Conducting some route recon here on camp not everyone knows the type of formation or hand signals of movement and how to cover and conceal ourselves. Sgt's time is not enough time for a soldier to retain what he learned that day if we not touch it again until when ever. Non Commissioned Officers need to make sure that we keep our Joes in