Sma Essay College

competitive in advancing there careers and make it fair across the board while still meeting the needs of the army! My second change as SMA would be the way single soldiers get charged to eat at the chow hall. Sometimes the mission dictates when soldiers eat and they are not always able to get to the chow hall during meal hours. I believe there is a reasonable and economical way that single soldiers can be charged for their meals at the dining facility.

One way we could change this is a card that could be swiped at the dining facilities like a debit card or eagle cash card and when you swipe the card it goes into your LES and the soldier gets to keep the unused money from missed meals. The third and final thing that I would choose would be the height and weight standards that soldiers have to meet for the APFT. The current standards are extremely bias and do not do a good job of rating the soldiers ability to be physically fit. Just because a soldier is “overweight” in the Army standards, does not mean the specific soldier actually is.

If you have a soldier who is constantly in the gym and is extremely fit there is a good chance that individual is going to bust tape. Its common knowledge that muscle weighs more than fat and I for one would much rather have a fit soldier who cant blow a pt test away and who can bench 300 pounds, but still busts tape pull me out of a fire fight than a soldier who meets the standard in height and weight

but can barely carry his gear through a combat scenario let alone pull a wounded soldier to safety if need be.

Those may not be the most important things that our army as a whole could change given the current state of combat operations we are conflicted in, but I believe all three of my choices are well thought through and would not only help morale of soldiers across the United States Army but the success and cohesiveness of the Army as a whole!