NAME: Brian Bowmer
THESIS: Junior enlisted American military members are pushed toward leaving the military.
BACKGROUND: U.S. Army Politics
OBJECTIVE: Showing how mistreated the junior enlisted are in the U.S Army.
SUPPORTING POINTS: 1. Punishments a. Field grade article 15 b. Extra duty c. Loss of rank d. Loss of pay 2. Poor Treatment a. Targeted for being new b. Pointless tasks c. Not taken seriously d. Hard to get answers 3. Using rank as power a. Threatened job b. Blaming lower enlisted for screw ups c. Hazing d. Pawning off tasks 4. Uncaring leadership a. Breaking profiles b. School c. Contradicting lies d. Personal time
COUNTER-ARGUMENTS:
1. Dealing with every problem all the junior enlisted bring to them gets very stressful.
2. There are limits to what they can allow the junior enlisted to do and in most occasions they will surpass them.
3. Every month they have to provide counseling statements to all of their solders in their teams
RESPONSE TO COUNTER-ARGUMENTS:
1. It kills the respect we had for them when they start to treat us like children.
2. The Army standard seems to change on a regular basis to contour to the higher ups lives.
3. We try to explain to them that things can get done much better by talking to us and telling us our daily tasks rather than yelling at us.

IMPLICATIONS: There is so many stories that can be told from junior enlisted to confirm how they are forced out of the U.S. Army.

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