Counseling your AGR's, How can Reserve and National Guard make their AGR's accountable for their actions in their postions. What can you do if an AGR is continually incompetant?

Jill,
This is a complex issue and not knowing the specifics makes it even more difficult. If the warrior is Reserve they fall under Army Regulations, if they are National Guard they fall under Army and State Regulations (a bigger mess).

If this person is a Spc or below corrective training to the nth degree is always an option. Taking time is always an attention getter regardless of rank but the corrective training needs to be in line with the offense and aimed at correcting the fault. Counseling is a must

Should this warrior be an NCO or Officer counseling is a definite. This will provide you will a tool to show that you identified the problem, provided possible solutions, took time to mentor, and the individual did not improve. So it should be annotated on the evaluation report. In severe cases it should be cause for relief. In relieve you typically provide 30 days for improvement. See AR 623-205 and the book Called the Evaluator for relieve actions.

Army regulation (I believe) 600-20 allows for reduction of soldiers for incompetency. However it is highly unlikely that this will fly because the requirements are demanding and you must have strong support from the chain of command

The first Place to start is with your Admin Officer. If you have their support you will probably get the AGRs attention. If not its time to start with the 1SG, SGM,CSM, or CDR.

Bottomline:
1. Talk to the individual
2. Counsel the individual id probolem areas, potential solutions, provide corrective measures (training formal or infomral) document everything.
3. Surface your concerns with the chain of command
4. Be prepared to put the information on an Evaluation report
5. If severe in nature look into a relief for cause report or a referred report (officer)
6. Again you can look into incompetency reduction but it is usually unsuccessful
7. Typically you want to do everything to be seen as the person that is trying to help given enough time and rope individuals of poor quality usually hang themselves but only if you do the paperwork.
8. Another option if you have your stuff together and depending on the offense a separation action may be in order.

Remember no bad soldier ever promoted themselves....they were promoted by leaders that failed to document substandard performance.

If you can provide more detail perhaps I can assist more. Good Luck and I hope this Helps

We had a similar situation, we had an AGR NCO that was a personnel SGT that was doing such a poor job at maintaining her unit's records and other responsibilities that we ended up taking her company from her and putting her to work in other areas . Since this was her first tour (the first tour is kind of like a trial period), we had been counseling her often and had the counselings, e-mails and reports to support our claims of her inefficiency.

One thing I found on the Reserve side of the HRC website is the "ACTIVE GUARD RESERVE (AGR) PROGRAM Commanders' Guide for Handling Substandard Soldiers". If you are logged into the HRC website it can be found at:
https://www.hrc.army.mil/site/protect/reserve/download/pub/agr_commanders_guide.doc

I have attached it also. Hope this helps.

SGT Cathryn Rosencrans- Etienne

QUOTE:
Always do everything you ask of those you command. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON