Army Rooting out Problem NCOs

[alfromcolorado]

Originally Posted by Pinhead

Maybe the thought is that unsatisfactorily junior NCOs and enlisted can simply be encouraged not to re-up (or their re-enlistment can be denied), but a dirtbag senior NCO is harder to get rid of. (Hard enough to require a special program?)

I don't know, it strikes me as odd too, that's just a guess at the intended logic.



It does indeed. Weed out the expensive higher grades. The junior folks may still be recoverable, and if not, don't cost as much anyway.

If I remember correctly it was started during the first Bush administration as part of the drawdown after the end of the Cold War. The MP living next door to me on Davao Circle, Devens, was sweating it big time.

[Richard]

If I remember correctly it was started during the first Bush administration as part of the drawdown after the end of the Cold War.

QMP was around as long as I was in the Army - for both Os and NCOs. However, the first really BIG purge I recall was in 1973.

Richard's $.02

[alfromcolorado]

Originally Posted by Richard

QMP was around as long as I was in the Army - for both Os and NCOs. However, the first really BIG purge I recall was in 1973.

Richard's $.02

1973 was a bit before my time. Did they always call it Qualitative Management Program?

I first saw it 89-90 time frame. A lot of people were worried in those days. They suspended it temporarily for the 1st Gulf War, sent the folks to the ME and upon return got back to QMP business.

They were all the way down into E-5s. Some good folks got whacked as well as some dirtballs.

[stickey]

UtahBob wrote: Okay, when are they going to start on the commissioned ranks?
Methinks there might be one or two deserving of some attention.

Just one or two?

I know of a handful and will probably get to see even more by the end of my time in.