The Ultimate Basic Training Guidebook. In basic training, you are not going to spend an hour a day in the gym doing bench presses and leg squats. The exercises you do will most likely be exercises you have never heard of i. Also, basic training runs usually consist of wind sprints and other exercises where the speed and direction of the run changes quickly and frequently. Therefore, your jog around the block at your house is doing little good for preparation purposes. To prepare for basic training you need to prepare your muscles and your mind for basic training type exercises.
Believe me, when you get to basic training, your muscles will thank you for the preparation. All the other recruits will be having calf cramps and muscle soreness and you will be sleeping like a baby. The Army promotes privates automatically based on two factors, their time in the service and their time at a given grade.
E1s move up to second class after six months of service. E2s become privates first class after a year's time in the service and four months' time as an E2. If you have the right qualifications, you can speed things up and enter the Army as an E3. This requires you to have some education before you enlist. Options for advanced enlistment include:. After you've served as an E3, you can probably advance to E4.
There are actually two kinds of E4: the corporal and the specialist. However, there are a few ways to jump from E-1 to E2 or E3, thus earning a higher pay-grade while gaining more leadership skills. The military branches offer promotions through several initiatives, such as friend referrals and pre-basic task list completion. Therefore, with a little effort you can achieve a higher rank, which is a great head start prior to shipping out. Privates, who are the basic manpower strength and grade of the Army, generally have sergeants as their first NCO leader.
It is the grade sergeant that the privates will look to for example. Like the next grade, the staff sergeant, the sergeant is responsible for the individual training, personal appearance and the cleanliness of their soldiers.
The authority of the sergeant is equal to that of any other grade or rank of the NCO. Professionally competent leaders inherently command respect for their authority, and the sergeant must be unquestionably competent in order to carry out the mission correctly, accomplish each task and care for assigned soldiers. The rank of sergeant is not a position for learning how to become a leader; no apprenticeship here.
While certainly the new sergeant will be developing new skills, strengthening old ones and generally getting better, he is a sergeant and is therefore no less a professional than those grades of rank to follow. Moving up the Army ranks: Unlike the promotion processes for privates, specialists and corporals, promotions to sergeant SGT and staff sergeant SSG is based on an Army-wide competition. The competition is based on a point system that grants points for firing range scores, performance evaluations, physical fitness, education level, awards and promotion board ranking.
The staff sergeant rank closely parallels that of the sergeant in duties and responsibilities. In fact, the basic duties and responsibility of all the NCO ranks never change, but there are significant differences between this step in the NCO structure and the preceding one.
The major difference between the staff sergeant and the sergeant is not, as often mistakenly believed, authority but rather sphere of influence. The staff sergeant is in daily contact with large numbers of soldiers and generally has more equipment and other property to maintain.
The SSG often has one or more sergeants who work under their direct leadership. The SSG is responsible for the continued successful development of sergeants as well as the soldiers in their section, squad or team. Moving up the Army ranks: SSG candidates must meet the following basic eligibility criteria to compete:. Although the Army does not make the official distinction in the rank structure, enlisted ranks of sergeant first class and above E-7 to E-9 generally are referred to as Senior NCOs, and they carry increasing levels of responsibility and demand greater levels of respect and deference.
Although there are only three pay grades, the SNCO ranks actually cover six separate ranks or designations -- sergeant first class platoon sergeant , master sergeant, first sergeant, sergeant major, command sergeant major and sergeant major of the Army.
Unlike the promotion processes for private through staff sergeant, unit commanders have little to do with the promotion process to the SNCO ranks. The platoon sergeant or sergeant first class generally has 15 to 18 years or more of military experience and is expected to bring that experience to bear in quick, accurate decisions that are in the best interest of the mission and the soldier. Platoon sergeant is a duty position, not a rank. The platoon sergeant is the primary assistant and adviser to the platoon leader, with the responsibility of training and caring for soldiers.
The platoon sergeant takes charge of the platoon in the absence of the platoon leader. Platoon sergeants teach collective and individual tasks to soldiers in their squads, crews or equivalent small units.
The position title of platoon sergeant is considered key in the command structure of the Army. The platoon sergeant generally has several staff sergeants who work under his direct leadership.
During the Vietnam era, the platoon sergeant was referred to affectionately as the "Plat-Daddy," and although the term has since faded, the role remains that of the "Father of the Platoon.
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