How Being Late Can Affect A Career In The Army
Being on time
Introduction and Thesis
On the morning of Tuesday the 25th of January, I arrived late to a room inspection conducted at the barracks at 0700. As part of my corrective training for this incident I will being teaching you all a class on the importance of being on time and how being late can affect your career in the Army.
The important aspects of being punctual include performance at work, combat readiness, and accountability.
Our first point of discussion will be performance at work. Simply put, being late means you are not performing to standard and putting your fair share in. Showing up after everybody has started working already causes the job to take longer. Another soldier or NCO will have to stop what they are doing to brief YOU on the mission. Taking time …show more content…
The ramifications of being late in a combat environment is exponentially worse. Someone who is late often is not dependable. Would you want to have an undependable person entering and clearing a room or putting a tourniquet on you in combat? Another example is a soldier who is not on time to relieve the current guard's post. You have just caused the combat effectiveness and readiness of the unrelieved guard to be greatly reduced risking the security of the area or FOB could be breached. An extreme example: Lets say your mission is to reinforce another team that is stuck in a firefight, being late WILL risk lives and possibly put the blame of another soldiers death on your shoulders. You're already late so obviously you don't have your shit together, now the team has to take extra time to make sure you have everything ready for the mission. Meanwhile, this other team is still out there dodging bullets, waiting LONGER because of you! Then if you are ridiculously late, they could just leave without you. Now you have a team, one man down, much more likely to have an injured soldier or death; trying to save ANOTHER squads
Introduction and Thesis
On the morning of Tuesday the 25th of January, I arrived late to a room inspection conducted at the barracks at 0700. As part of my corrective training for this incident I will being teaching you all a class on the importance of being on time and how being late can affect your career in the Army.
The important aspects of being punctual include performance at work, combat readiness, and accountability.
Our first point of discussion will be performance at work. Simply put, being late means you are not performing to standard and putting your fair share in. Showing up after everybody has started working already causes the job to take longer. Another soldier or NCO will have to stop what they are doing to brief YOU on the mission. Taking time …show more content…
The ramifications of being late in a combat environment is exponentially worse. Someone who is late often is not dependable. Would you want to have an undependable person entering and clearing a room or putting a tourniquet on you in combat? Another example is a soldier who is not on time to relieve the current guard's post. You have just caused the combat effectiveness and readiness of the unrelieved guard to be greatly reduced risking the security of the area or FOB could be breached. An extreme example: Lets say your mission is to reinforce another team that is stuck in a firefight, being late WILL risk lives and possibly put the blame of another soldiers death on your shoulders. You're already late so obviously you don't have your shit together, now the team has to take extra time to make sure you have everything ready for the mission. Meanwhile, this other team is still out there dodging bullets, waiting LONGER because of you! Then if you are ridiculously late, they could just leave without you. Now you have a team, one man down, much more likely to have an injured soldier or death; trying to save ANOTHER squads