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If I posted this on FB and pointed fingers of units and commands I'm sure there would be blow back in my direction.
So'm I'm going to rant here.
What it came down to is we are an isolated Company level unit. Our BN, and BG are elsewhere geographically. As such, we are pretty much on our own in regards to getting things done. So we don't get to leverage off of any year end holiday festivities higher levels might be doing.
For the past 10 years or so the American Legion has been hosting my unit's Holiday Party. Since the unit doesn't have a civilian employee/mil tech per regs no one in uniform can administer a bank account for such purposes. So we can't generate any kind of funding.
We got a Santa, a Chaplin, Toys from Dollar Tree donations, etc....It's all good, we are good to go. Execution is complete.
The problem is we got some donations, and how we articulated to the Legal Officer at higher command how we got those donations tripped us up.
My understanding is the food donations are what got us. Someone in uniform coordinated the food. Had it been a non unit associated civilian we would have been good to go.
So higher command legal said cancel it. Now the American Legion is going to be stuck with all this extra food, and the unit leadership had to scramble to conduct a legitimate training day schedule.
I am beside myself, and disgusted every time I now see FB feeds of my peers in other units having their year end events. I'm even more disgusted higher levels in my chain above us are conducting such events.
Now I have to help manage this cluster and communicate to my NCO's and soldiers why this BS happened, and how the Army is still good for them.
Worst yet, it's all semantics, and we will get around the game next year.
Thank you for your service.
Merry F'ing Christmas.
So'm I'm going to rant here.
What it came down to is we are an isolated Company level unit. Our BN, and BG are elsewhere geographically. As such, we are pretty much on our own in regards to getting things done. So we don't get to leverage off of any year end holiday festivities higher levels might be doing.
For the past 10 years or so the American Legion has been hosting my unit's Holiday Party. Since the unit doesn't have a civilian employee/mil tech per regs no one in uniform can administer a bank account for such purposes. So we can't generate any kind of funding.
We got a Santa, a Chaplin, Toys from Dollar Tree donations, etc....It's all good, we are good to go. Execution is complete.
The problem is we got some donations, and how we articulated to the Legal Officer at higher command how we got those donations tripped us up.
My understanding is the food donations are what got us. Someone in uniform coordinated the food. Had it been a non unit associated civilian we would have been good to go.
So higher command legal said cancel it. Now the American Legion is going to be stuck with all this extra food, and the unit leadership had to scramble to conduct a legitimate training day schedule.
I am beside myself, and disgusted every time I now see FB feeds of my peers in other units having their year end events. I'm even more disgusted higher levels in my chain above us are conducting such events.
Now I have to help manage this cluster and communicate to my NCO's and soldiers why this BS happened, and how the Army is still good for them.
Worst yet, it's all semantics, and we will get around the game next year.
Thank you for your service.
Merry F'ing Christmas.
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