From the desk fo the Sergeant Major of the Army

[Don Coyote]

Leaders,

   Our Soldiers, and especially our noncommissioned officer corps, are the envy of every Army in the world.  This kind of respect does not happen overnight.  However, this respect and trust breaks down when we, as senior noncommissioned officers, fail to meet the charge to uphold the Army standard and live the Army Values.

Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity and Personal Courage are not just a group of individual ideals, but a collective ethic.  These values are at the core of what makes us a profession and serves as our moral compass.

This is why it pains me to see senior noncommissioned officers punished for gross incompetence and negligence. Sexual assault and harassment, driving under the influence, and contract fraud are just a few of the major issues I see across my desk on a daily basis.  These are not junior NCOs breaking the law.  It is our senior NCOs with many years of service, the ones our junior Soldiers look to for guidance, mentorship, and counseling, who are not upholding our Army standard. 

I do not doubt for a second that most of these incidents could have been stopped earlier in the process.  Most of the time, a peer sees or hears something, but turns a blind eye.  It takes Personal Courage for an NCO to pull a peer aside and say, "I saw what you did, and it needs to stop now.  You are compromising your values." I Will Not Leave a Fallen Comrade does not just apply to the battlefield.  This part of the Warrior Ethos applies to our everyday life.  We must police our own.

   We cannot expect our Soldiers to live by the Army Values when their leaders and mentors are not upholding the standard.  These values form the framework of our profession, and are nonnegotiable.  Values, plus the Warrior Ethos, guides the way we conduct ourselves as an Army and as a Profession of Arms.  We must be the uncompromising standard bearer for our Soldiers.  Leadership is the key ingredient.  Are you leading by example?  Army Strong!
   
   

The message made me  .

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Did you have a funny shit taste in your mouth? Because that's some anal to oral action, right there. The Sergeant Major sort of makes the Army sound like a cross between Boy Scouts and a beauty pageant.

[Aucoq]

Sexual assault and harassment, driving under the influence, and contract fraud are just a few of the major issues I see across my desk on a daily basis.

"I saw what you did, and it needs to stop now.  You are compromising your values."

I can only imagine Coyote walking up to an NCO as he forces himself on a woman and says," I see what you're doing, and it needs to stop now.  You are compromising your values."

[Don Coyote]

Sexual assault and harassment, driving under the influence, and contract fraud are just a few of the major issues I see across my desk on a daily basis.

"I saw what you did, and it needs to stop now.  You are compromising your values."

I can only imagine Coyote walking up to an NCO as he forces himself on a woman and says," I see what you're doing, and it needs to stop now.  You are compromising your values."

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

Are you leading by example?  Army Strong!

The message made me  .

Tacking on a slogan at the end of a memo about rape is what really gets me.

[Don Coyote]

Are you leading by example?  Army Strong!

The message made me  .

Tacking on a slogan at the end of a memo about rape is what really gets me.

The memo wasn't about rape. It was about senior NCOs doing ALL the wrong things they do and how shitty of an example they are to everyone else. The major thrust of this is probably the recent conviction of a Command Sergeant Major for damn near everything listed in that memo. The sad and scary thing is how many of them get away with it, whether due to them sucking the right dicks, or laziness on the side of THEIR superiors. Why do they do shit like this? "If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying" That is the real Army Motto.

[Aucoq]

"If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying" That is the real Army Motto.

Haha, my ex-brother-in-law (who is in the Army) and my sister (who was in the Army) used to try to ingrain that "Golden Rule" into my brain when I was younger. 

[East Coast Hustle]

In all fairness, that rule is 100% true.

But yeah, the memo IS lulzy.