For the first time today in a while I have seen people being grouped together for not writing a contract. Correct me if I am wrong but are we not allowed to do this anymore? I thought (maybe I am wrong) there was a message put out about this. But it essentially says that it is up to the station commander as to how to complete the mission. Recruiters are not to be held to individual contract missioning. Station commanders are not supposed to be counseling soldiers on contract placement and such crap as that. If I as a station commander wanted two recruiters just prospecting one doing the packets and the other as my future soldier manager. Then that's the way it should be and no one should me fucking with me if we are making the mission. At least that is what I was taking from the message. But I could be wrong. So why was it today that our 1SG is worried about why particular recruiters didn't write a contract this past month. I mean don't get me wrong, in this day and age there shouldn't be an excuse. But he should have at least asked the station commander hey what did you have recruiter XYZ doing this past month? Station commander gives the answer and the everyone moves out.
Now we are hearing about leadline, well let me clue some of you in on this one. I thought we were always on leadline thinking. At least I have been. Leadline is when you attain the goals on your MAP (Mission Accomplishment Plan) on a weekly basis. I mean if you fall behind on your leadline then you will have to work twice has hard the next week and so on down the road. By attaining leadline this will prevent the station as a whole from having to try and do what some of us call "Stovepiping" in other words trying to throw down everything you have in the last week of the month, because at the beginning of the next month you won't have shit to show for it. Stovpiping is a viscious cycle that I have seen before. While there is a time and place for it. It usually shouldn't be done month in and month out. So why is this leadline thing a new idea? If you as a station comander are running your station the right way then this leadline thing shouldn't be a fucking issue.