US Army Reviews

Pros

Serve my Country, Professional pride, Outstanding soldiers. EXCELLANT benefits for Family and self.

Cons

Away from family, long hours, can be dangerous.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue immediate Positive & Negative feedback to soldiers and officers.

Pros

Great benefits
Awesome teamwork
Best place to learn a craft

Cons

Long months away from family
Countless hours of work
Working in dangerous environments

Advice to Senior Management

Take care if Soldiers both on active duty and after active duty.

Pros

The benefits are great and you are able to move up as long as you continue to try. The structure is very easy to get used to and eventually it becomes one of your favorite aspects.

Cons

There is always the worry of time spent away from home from schools, missions, and deployments. The hours are also long sometimes.

Advice to Senior Management

You can never take your words back. Your people are your most valuable asset. Compassion and humility will get you very far.

Pros

One has the opportunity to work with many of the Nations finest leaders and managers, and challenge yourself to fulfill your capabilities.

Cons

The mission of the military is to confront threats that appear in the screen of our society. Having to leave one's family to do it is the downfall, though it comes with the job.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay close attention, not only to your mission, but genuinely to your Soldiers and their issues. This is a major concern.

Pros

The best benefits
Travel
learn things that most people will never know
build leadership skills
Discipline

Cons

Working long hours
Working harder during one day than most people do in one year

Advice to Senior Management

Read your AR's, FM's, TM's.
Train, Train, Train again!
Know your piece, and make sure you Soldiers do also!

Pros

Junior and middle management opportunities. Opportunity to travel and learn other cultures. Multitude opportunities to develop a myriad of skills.

Cons

Lack of opportunities for senior management development. Difference in benefits and opportunities available between US Army Reserve and US Army Active Duty soldiers.

Advice to Senior Management

Make available more opportunities for senior leader development of Reserve Officers. Provide the same benefits available to Regular Active Duty Officers

Pros

As long as you do what you are supposed to and do it well then there is great job security.

LOTS of benefits, medical and education are great and you accrue more vacation time here than in any other job.

Cons

Much of the leadership is close-minded and cannot adapt to changing times and often fail to realize that there ARE exceptions to EVERY rule, things are not always black and white.

If you have a problem with leadership it is EXTREMELY hard to address the issue and if it persists your options are limited. You can't just quit like a normal job.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to adapt to and analyze each situation and then determine a course of action based off the details, rather than just having a black or white/yes or no response. So often Soldiers get screwed-over simply because their leaders won't look at their situation as a single event, rather the leaders look at it as falling under a general category and give a generic response based off of that.

An example: A junior leader is up for promotion but states he is not ready since he has not been in the position long enough and has not even had the chance to actually lead, so instead of giving him more time he is forced to go to a promotion board because "there has been no negative actions against him that would prevent him from going." Now this junior leader is going to become a mid-level leader that doesn't even have the experience of a junior leader and will a) be seen as a terrible leader by his subordinates and, ironically, by the same superiors that forced his promotion, and b) likely become a misguided leader like those that put him there because he was promoted before he could develop as a leader.

Pros

In the Army, the military for that matter, you will be afforded the opportunity to travel, train on different vehicles, weapons, and many other "military" specifics. Army aviation is more relaxed than the rest of the Army with many opportunities for advancement, like becoming a maintenance supervisor or flying as a crew chief. The health/dental care is second to none and paid vacation is pretty cool, especially since you can start accruing leave days from day 1 in the Army.

Cons

Sometimes the work day/week can be long and sometimes youre required to travel to other locations for training exercises. Not to mention the occasional "deployment." The money is decent though..

Advice to Senior Management

I believe that the Army is "sometimes" over micro-managed and would benefit from allowing lower management to perform their duties. Im not implying that every unit is ran in this fashion. In my experience with the army and it management, this is my only complaint. Everything else is tolerable... and even fun.

Pros

Benefits, Camaraderie, Free personal training!

Cons

Long Days, Long Deployments, Sometimes less than desirable leadership.

Pros

The benefits are very good.

Cons

Cannot be sure your leadership will be any good. Revolving door of personnel.