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Essay about The Importance of Keeping Appointments

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Article 86 of the Uniform Code Of Military Justice. This Article covers Point and Place of Duty. That means from PT formation to COB that is where you will be. What a lot of Soldiers do not understand that includes appointments made by them or someone else. We have appointment times, SP times, formation times and many other start times that dictate we will be there. If a Convoy has an SP time of fifteen hundred hours and the Soldiers decide to show up late because they did not feel like getting ready on time people could die. If they rolled out on time, they may have avoided the ambush or avoided the Vbid that hit them in the bottleneck. It sounds extreme but time management plays a critical role in the Army. …show more content…

Not only does it cost time but it also cost money. It cost the Army to have Doctors there for the Soldiers to see, it cost money to have people there to work CIF, Finance, Household Goods and many other facets of the Army. The majority of these sectors are run by civilians now who are paid hourly. Some of them might be working on a day off because a Soldier made an appointment with them. That right there cost the Army money that would have otherwise been saved. Now that the Soldier missed the appointment they caused the Army to waste a certain amount of money that could have been used for another area. Now let’s look at the math. If you have ten Soldiers that each make an appointment and each person they are suppose to see has an average hourly wage of thirteen dollars an hour and each work an eight hour day when they where suppose to be off that comes out to $104 per person. Now ten employees multiplied by $104 comes out too $1040. If all ten soldiers miss their appointments you can see the amount of money that was wasted because ten Soldiers decided not to show up. That also comes out to almost $400,000 over the course of the year. Just imagine if that happened every at every installation. The cost would be astronomical. The thing is this not just isolated to Company, Battalion or even Brigade level. Its Army wide and it’s something that is has become out of control. I myself am guilty of it. I made an appointment with the Army’s stop smoking class.

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