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Army Police Report

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Introduction
As a leader, your primary responsibility is taking care of and the training of your Soldiers. Leaders will come in early, stay late, sacrifice their personal time and family time to make sure their Soldiers are trained. The ways leaders take care of their Soldiers are by mentoring, coaching, guiding, teaching, inventorying their equipment and inspecting their living conditions. What happens when a leader has good intentions for the well-fair of his or her Soldiers but a false report had a negative impact on his or her Soldiers that results in the leader questioning the investigation process and the Army?
I was a First Sergeant for a Headquarter Troop in an Aviation Squadron in the 3rd Infantry Division in Savannah, Ga. I was …show more content…

The Brigade Command Sergeant called my Squadron Command Sergeant Major and told him that our barrack was filthy. My Squadron Command Sergeant Major called all of the First Sergeants in the squadron that had Soldiers living in the barracks to report to barracks at 1700. At 1700, we conducted a barracks walk-through of our foot print which consisted of the Squadron Command Sergeant Major, Delta Troop First Sergeant, Echo Troop First Sergeant, and myself. Doing the walk-through, we discovered a barrack room door unsecured with fruit cups on the ground in front of the door. I realized it was not a Soldier from our squadron so I moved from the room. My Squadron Command Sergeant Major called the Soldier from his room, put his arm around and told the soldier that he need to clean up his area because that is one of the reason that we are over here now. The issue started when the roommate of the Soldier who was told to clean up his area returned from field training. The Soldier who just returned from training discovered someone was trying to brake in his room. The roommate told the Soldier that a Command Sergeant Major and three First Sergeant had dragged from his room and tried to use a tool to get in his room. The Soldier notified his leadership then called Military Police to make a report that a Command …show more content…

The following Monday, we went to the field for training and incident hit the blotter on the same day. The Commanding General saw the blotter report about the incident and told the Brigade Commander to open an investigation on the incident. I was called from the field training and relieved from our leadership positions. The Squadron Commander gave me a counseling statement and no contact order while the investigation was going. I was giving two options. I will take leave or go to work at Brigade during the investigation. I took leave but I had to come in everyday to get interviewed by the investigation

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