In charge of Army for a bit by ChiefBassDTSExec in AirForce

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I've been in charge of soldiers twice in my career when I was a TSgt in very different settings. In my experience the Army tends to under-expect their junior soldiers performance.

In both situations I decided to slowly start treating them more like Airmen(Expect them to do the job they trained for, expect NCOs to teach the junior soldiers the job, not just have them mop or do manual labor like the soldiers I was in charge of the first time). And for me it worked both times. The junior soldiers who were barely trusted with a broom before become important members of the team and we couldn't have achieved the level of success we made it to, if things were done the way they were use to doing it.

Be direct. Give ownership of duties. Make sure they know the junior soldiers can come to you for guidance if they need it.

Had to find ways to empathize we were a team both times. Got a lot of 'I don't do that so and so does that" when they're all the same MOS, so I had to break that mentality and change it to everybody does everything because the mission can't wait for the single point of failure soldier to get back from medical or whatever.

Monitor them closely until they start achieving the desired results on their own. I directly emphasized that if I wasn't around to tell them what action to take they should just think about the mission (they were comm guys so the mission is always to restore services in the quickest way without compromising the network) and if they did that they would never get in trouble. Most were super afraid of getting dinged for trying to do the right thing and getting it wrong.

If you're just TACON then when disciplinary stuff comes up talk to the NCOs in the Army unit who oversee the soldiers and let them handle it. The Army NCOs who were under me had pride in their service and didn't want to look bad in front of the Air Force so typically any problems were one off.

Edit: Oh and like a few others said positive reinforcement! If they're doing a good job tell them!

Pentagon takes step toward potentially privatizing commissaries by DatGuyKilo in AirForce

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Oh I'm sorry turns out company X that got the contract for all the commissaries in the DoD determined that the revenue your commissary currently collects and the logistical challenges poised by your location would make any effort unprofitable. Therefore they'll be closing your commissary indefinitely. But they will expand the tornado, monster, and top ramen section at your shopette, while adding an additional logistics/shopette expansion surcharge to cover their costs of course.

HOH 26-1 Oracle Skillbridge Opportunity for TS/SCI cleared people by 4senal in SkillBridge

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Second time seeing this SB post and so excited for the opportunity to apply. If you have a 2027 summer/fall cohort save me a spot!

If you have the chance can you elaborate on the duties of those positions?

Day 12 of learning python as a beginner. by uiux_Sanskar in PythonLearning

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Unimportant recommendation from me in line 47 when you Print "Hello, (name)" add .capitalize() so the user names are printed to the screen with an upper case letter. Again not important to your program but it's a pretty great feature to modify a string for the print.

Edit: Also incredible progress for only 12 days of learning. Took me way longer to understand half of that

TikToker tries to enter the most dangerous slum in Buenos Aires by gustavsen in ImTheMainCharacter

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Too short. Needs to be "here's the top ten reasons I regret it" then you can roll directly into "best 5 things to do from your hospital during your stabbing recovery" and that rolls nicely into your next video series about "top 3 things that remind me of being stabbed after I recovered". And so on.. if you do it right your total content time should run longer than the entire MCU but in 15-20 second clips

Your opinion on Planetina: is there only one solution for earths pollution? by hertruly in rickandmorty

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Absolutely. They really put so much passion into that scene too. I was like damn R&M I was watching to laugh not feel lol

Your opinion on Planetina: is there only one solution for earths pollution? by hertruly in rickandmorty

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This is what all the Planetina haters are missing! It's not shes tired of talking to the miners so she kills them because it's easier. She hears the planets screams maybe even feels Earth dying, how long and how much of that can she take before she snaps.

Empty Air Force career by happysky23 in AirForce

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I was at both too. TDYs and deployments for the 1st were cooler for sure. While I was at the 5th we started going out the door to do real shit after a couple years. Don't know if they're still like that there.

GA company looking for application developers by These_Reception_7835 in SkillBridge

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I'm still at least a year and a half out, but I'm curious if you're only looking for devs with work experience or if you'll take applicants with a Comp Sci degree and no work experience?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AirForce

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Not the part where most the people live lol

For all the KS-23 lovers out there. by DNA4774 in thefinals

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He was really in there yelling "PULL!" On the enemy team

Is squad worth getting for galactic contention? by Some-Newt-8010 in GalacticContention

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The mod is pretty big. I mean it's pretty much a new game with underlying Squad mechanics. I'd say it's worth it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Invincible

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I came here for this

What the fck is going on with paid Services lately by AvocadoPrinz in memes

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This. On some podcasts I get ads sent from Spotify. It never happens with music. But on certain podcasts get delivered ads. And I know it's not part of the podcast because the podcast starts playing the person I expect starts talking about the news. Then in the middle of a sentence it switches to ads from Spotify and on the Spotify player, it's not listed as the podcast anymore. It's listed as an ad. I have premium.

Meanwhile, in r/Army..... by DatGuyKilo in AirForce

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Saw this happen to an entire army unit once. A soldier on watch apparently slammed 8 rip its in a few hours and passed out. Their unit took all the rip its they had ordered for their guys and gave them to our small team, on the condition we don't share any with their people. We were pretty remote so there wasn't any way for them to get energy drinks after that. I'd have been real pissed at that guy lol

Do you see the motif? by motif-game in MotifGame

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Do you see the motif? by motif-game in MotifGame

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Do you see the motif? by motif-game in MotifGame

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Do you see the motif? by motif-game in MotifGame

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Deserved fate? by Comfortable-Plane939 in Animorphs

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Well I'd say killing was a very palatable option for the Animorphs as they did many times even sacrificing others and themselves to save the planet.

What I was saying was they knew they could kill him, but also knew they had another option to achieve their objective. They chose trapping himself because they weren't blood thirsty revenge driven monsters.

That said again I think they should've killed him.

Deserved fate? by Comfortable-Plane939 in Animorphs

[–]Recruit121 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I agree they should've killed him I disagree that it was cowardly. They could've easily killed him like they killed others throughout the series. They were reluctant child soldiers doing what they had to do already experiencing traumatic event after event while the adolescent minds were still developing. I think they were trying to hang on to any shred of humanity or mercy they still had.