Approach to discipline
Antonio B. Quintero
Grand Canyon University: Emergency Operations and Techniques
24 May 2014
I’ve been on active duty for 22 years now and have had to obey and follow rules and regulations ever since knowing the consequence if I failed to do that. Every day we are changing these rules or better said, we are adjusting the way our society is changing too. In the military we carry what is called a Division Officer record for every Sailor E6 and below and it contains various forms from evaluations to counseling chits. When a young man/woman gets into trouble this record is reviewed to see about the past of a Sailor and how much trouble he/she has gotten into. When the charge is serious, I am all about them receiving the maximum punishment available. Like I mentioned this depends on the seriousness of the offense he/she has broken. We all have to obey and follow the same rules and regulations, so why let them get off easy, that’s not me. What I don’t like having in a work center is a Sailor who doesn’t want to contribute to the success of our mission. No matter where you are, whether a civilian work or in the military, there are always going to be people who want to go against the stream. They have all the answers and dislike answering to others. I tend to make these young men/women’s life a little harder than what it needs to be. I come up with meticulous work for them to do and I constantly tell them it was done wrong even though it’s good. I keep them gainfully employed and when that task has been completed to my standards, they already have another one. I’m a fair but firm leader who lets his Sailors do what they need to as long as it is with our core values. Yes, I believe that a disciplinary response is good because here you receive what a young Sailor was thinking about. We need to hear their side of the story first, review their record and the go from there to give them the punishment according to their performance and
Grand Canyon University: Emergency Operations and Techniques
24 May 2014
I’ve been on active duty for 22 years now and have had to obey and follow rules and regulations ever since knowing the consequence if I failed to do that. Every day we are changing these rules or better said, we are adjusting the way our society is changing too. In the military we carry what is called a Division Officer record for every Sailor E6 and below and it contains various forms from evaluations to counseling chits. When a young man/woman gets into trouble this record is reviewed to see about the past of a Sailor and how much trouble he/she has gotten into. When the charge is serious, I am all about them receiving the maximum punishment available. Like I mentioned this depends on the seriousness of the offense he/she has broken. We all have to obey and follow the same rules and regulations, so why let them get off easy, that’s not me. What I don’t like having in a work center is a Sailor who doesn’t want to contribute to the success of our mission. No matter where you are, whether a civilian work or in the military, there are always going to be people who want to go against the stream. They have all the answers and dislike answering to others. I tend to make these young men/women’s life a little harder than what it needs to be. I come up with meticulous work for them to do and I constantly tell them it was done wrong even though it’s good. I keep them gainfully employed and when that task has been completed to my standards, they already have another one. I’m a fair but firm leader who lets his Sailors do what they need to as long as it is with our core values. Yes, I believe that a disciplinary response is good because here you receive what a young Sailor was thinking about. We need to hear their side of the story first, review their record and the go from there to give them the punishment according to their performance and