ESSAY
What does it mean to be a Non-commissioned officer in the Military Police Corps? Well to start this off we need to break down what a non-commissioned officer does. A non-commissioned officers top duty in my mind should be the accomplishment of the mission and the welfare of the soldiers. With the accomplishment of the mission that could be many of things such as teaching the Jr enlisted that the NCO is appointed over the basic
As a Non Commissioned Officer / Specialist team leader 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 if possible and if they find a discrepancy to annotate in 5988’s and ensuring that we give them the right FM’s for the equipment we have having them do 5988’s on. We need to be more creative and find some other ways to keep them busy while also giving them a break from the hussel of the everyday life in such a high demanding unit such as are own or in a platoon like are’s that gets used and abused by are battalion. 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