Motivation In The Military Essay
The United States military dates back to 1775 drafting men initially to fight for their country in which conditions wasn’t the best. As years pass new technology, new weapons, and vehicles to support comes with new rules, regulations, and a vigorous decision making process for senior leaders to ponder on. Below the senior leadership are the people that make it happen, we the soldiers fighting everyday serving our country dealing with all the changes on a daily bases adapting as we go. The least thought about wondering why the loss of motivation within the units, the rate of soldiers with mental and physical disorders raising all over, and family’s being affected by the change because of the choice of not to hear the voices of the people that
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A combat zone in Afghanistan or Iraq are key examples of a stress environment in which most accidents, causality’s, and motivation are major concerns because with being away from family at long periods of time or forced to trust the person to the left and right of you to protect you when danger strikes adds onto the PTSD rates, depression, or soldiers committing suicide. In garrison (stateside) I hear a lot of soldiers mad or depressed just waiting in order to be out the military for good because of the working conditions and the leadership with there over the top ideas giving soldiers the mind set of saying forget it the unit won’t get any better than what it is. “Since I been in the military Instead of the army trying to make things better it just seems as if all the rules they come up with make it more difficult then the next” (CW2 Browder) commenting on his experiences since he been in the military for almost 8 years. Senior leaders have been in the military for 15 to 20 years so they are not relating to the younger crowd that’s coming in thinking it’s still back in there old era and that’s what I noticed on how they try to rephrase the different rules and field
A combat zone in Afghanistan or Iraq are key examples of a stress environment in which most accidents, causality’s, and motivation are major concerns because with being away from family at long periods of time or forced to trust the person to the left and right of you to protect you when danger strikes adds onto the PTSD rates, depression, or soldiers committing suicide. In garrison (stateside) I hear a lot of soldiers mad or depressed just waiting in order to be out the military for good because of the working conditions and the leadership with there over the top ideas giving soldiers the mind set of saying forget it the unit won’t get any better than what it is. “Since I been in the military Instead of the army trying to make things better it just seems as if all the rules they come up with make it more difficult then the next” (CW2 Browder) commenting on his experiences since he been in the military for almost 8 years. Senior leaders have been in the military for 15 to 20 years so they are not relating to the younger crowd that’s coming in thinking it’s still back in there old era and that’s what I noticed on how they try to rephrase the different rules and field