The US Army is the Best Business in the United States
The breakdown of its intuitiveness and structure
Points:
- Executive Leadership
- Admin & Customer Service
- Supply
- Contractors
- Training
Ask any question you wish to ask about this, I have my give-a-sh*t hat on, I’ll give you the best answer I have in the comments.
Executive Leadership
The following is the structure of the US Army:
TEAM (about 4 people) (has a team leader from E-4 to E-5 which acts as the team admin)
SQUAD (up to 10 soldiers) (has a staff sergeant (E-6) and at least 1 sergeant, which has about 3 soldiers who has administrative duties)
PLATOON (about 40 soldiers) (led by 1 sergeant first class (E-7) and 1 second or first lieutenant (O-1 or O-2) (Each platoon has an office in the company office for leadership)
COMPANY (between 120–200 soldiers) (led by a first sergeant (E-8) and a captain (O-3) (Each company has an “admin” that answers the phone for the company and relays information to each platoon and company leadership) (Each company has a supply room, S-4, listed in next session).
BATTALION (led by a sergeant major and lieutenant colonel) (has between 4–6 companies, 4–6 captains, 4–6 first sergeants, and 16–20 sergeant first class’s) (Each Battalion has an S-1 (listed in next session).
BRIGADE (led by a sergeant major and colonel)
DIVISION (led by a 2-star major general and sergeant major)
CORPS (led by a 3-star lieutenant general and sergeant major)
FIELD ARMY (led by a 4-star general and sergeant major)
ARMY GROUP (led by a 4-star general and sergeant major) (consists of about 4 field armies)
ARMY REGION (during wartime) (led by a 4-star general or 5-star General and commanding sergeant major)
The current Chief of Staff of the Army would not fall under any of those. Those are active operation command terms. The Army Region General would not “outrank” the Chief of Staff of the Army, but would be in charge of making all decisions, such as OIF. The Chief of Staff of the Army has political and Army admin things to work.
Joining this Company
- 100% paid training
- Lowest pay is $1,833 per month (and this is also the lowest pay while in training). That is actually just like $12 an hour (just they don’t pay for housing which gives it more value). The Chief of Staff of the Army’s pay is about $20,000 a month.
- Sometimes bonuses are given
Administration & Customer Service
When it comes to administrative things, the Army has these in place:
- Personnel (G1) (S1)
- Intelligence (G2) (S2)
- Operations and training (G3) (S3)
- Logistics (G4) (S4)
- Civil-military operations (G5) (S5)
- Signal operations (G6) (S6)
The S1 above would be military customer service and HR. Everyone goes through S1 going into the unit and leaving the unit.
Supply
Supply would fall under S4 above (logistics).
Contractors
Every branch has civilian personnel working for the branch. They are on federal pay and low federal pay is considered $40,000 a year.
Training
The Army has decided it was not only a good idea, but made it their business to design and create manuals for everyone’s job.
Even when I was in the Military Police, we had training manuals. We started out in Basic Combat Training, which was designed to take nonqualified personnel and make them qualified for just being in the company. Then we transitioned to Advanced Individualized Training (AIT) and learned our specific job.
One area of my job was to PMCS (preventive maintenance checks and services) of the HMMWV (humvee), which also came with a manual on how to do that.
The Army taught me that I can do most jobs. I don’t care about one’s degree, the point is ability. Most jobs, aside from doctors, lawyers, NASA Engineers, and a few other jobs, I can do your job. Just civilian companies want to make things hard on themselves. There are a ton of jobs on USAJOBS that I could do with really not much effort, which required a master degree in a field I did not study in college.
If you have a manual, then you have a standard of which to hold people, because you spell out there job. That’s actually ingenious.
Putting Everything Together
The reason I say the military is the greatest company strategy is due to:
- awards given by “corporate” that stick to one’s career
- paid training for per unit need “career advancement”, essentially, such as sniper, airborne, air assault, Ranger, etc.
- great pay
- great insurance
- great benefits
- great deployment pay (extra pay for travel, spouses get over $400 — well it’s not written to the spouses, but let’s be real, they get it)
- all training someone needs for their job
- so intuitive that there are two different company personnel (Army has soldiers and civilians alike. Soldiers must be discharged and civilians actually work for corporate US Army and can be fired by your normal office managers)
An E-1 Private with dependents will get $1,400 per month in Housing Allowance on top of their paycheck. Family separation for deployment (travel) is $250 a month. Resulting in an 18-year old married E-1 in Fort Bragg, NC will get a minimum of $3,483 per month for deploying to Iraq in 2022.
The Army will always have people dedicated to a trade. Fire teams train for deployments. Supply work on needed supplies for unit operations. Everyone has someone to go to, to ask questions without getting ostracized.
The Army has their own vehicles. Their own insurance. Their own doctors and dentists. Their own fire house.
The Army is a city.
We’ve all seen large companies in our time, but none compare to the US Army. Compared to the US Army, they are poor in leadership, innovation, and rewards.
Some may say, “but they get government money”. Median Army Physician salary is $62,000 a year using tax dollars, versus the lowest civilian physician in the lowest paid field (pediatrician) in 2020 averaging over $200,000.
You know what we can do with that extra $100,000 — expand and be more important for society. Ya’ll just got a greed problem. Army wins. Remember, The Chief of Staff of the Army’s pay is about $20,000 a month.
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