u/Dementedsage

From company level and from the platoon level everyone just goes straight to me for everything. Not to the SGT's nor the SSG's. I’ve got fucking three goddamm NCOs getting paid more than me to sit on their ass in the fucking office. My fucking SSG is either the stupidest person in the BN, or playing dumb because why the fuck am I having to spend more time teaching him basic shit about our mos than the Privates.

I’ve got four soldiers, effectively nine because the SSG and SGT are both lazy. I’m spending so much time on taskings that I’m starting to feel like I’m actually failing my soldiers now that I have literally zero time for them. So far it’s a lot more trying to do my job and three others, than actually getting to mentor the younger soldiers.

In return I neither get paid like an NCO, nor do I even get my own room. Barracks management told me get fucked till I pin five. I shouldn’t have to spend lunch writing an event oriented counseling for my literal roommate while I’m close enough to be sniffing his feet.

I’ll take a Gin and tonic.

I came in back 2019, so It’s been a while. I remember getting to my first unit and I was one of four unmarried soldiers in my entire platoon. People who made it to sergeant without getting married or getting out a couple months later were rare. Cut to today and I gotta fucking lap my BDE footprint if I wanna inspect all my dude’s rooms because we’re super low on space in the bricks. It’s most of the e4 and below in the barracks and I’m one of four unmarried NCO’s in my platoon also in the barracks. Like is it just a coincidence, or are soldier marriages starting to more closely align with the average age for civilians.

I’ll take a Stella Artois.

Day two of having my first soldiers; I finally get a chance to sit down and talk to them, get to know them, write an initial counseling, etc. One of them already is paying a grand a month for their car as a private. I know I can't tell them what to do with their money, but the majority of the kids paycheck is going to a car he can't afford and that's still a problem. He's also got a semi-shit APR.

I got sent to the field almost immediately. They're back in the rear, so I can only do so much from here. The other NCOs I work with aren't gonna want to do anything for him. He's already got one of those credit building cards on the way. I advised him to pretty much just use it for stupid shit and pay it off. The Apr in like six months can be refinanced. I gotta print out his LES for his counseling packet anyways so I'll probably have a more in depth talk with him about finances then when I get back.

I ultimately can't really do anything PARTICULARLY impactful I can just advise when it comes to his money as far as I understand. Even if he were to sell it, it's new so he'd be down probably 5k just based off lost value alone, so it's not exactly gonna sound appealing to him if i try to convince him to get rid of the damn thing and buy a 2012 civic instead. I'm just crossing my T's and dotting my I's. I don't want the kid to make the same mistakes I did when I was younger.

I'll take a Modello. I'm already starting to understand why some of my old NCOs used to drink the way they did.