1. Sergeant Duty Position Roles and Responsibilities
Sergeant Academy

2. Training Objective
Task: Understand the roles and responsibilities of each sergeant duty position during the academic year
Condition: Having previously received instruction on the general roles and responsibilities of sergeants
Standard: Demonstrate understanding by active participation in class

3. Specific Sergeant Positions
On the subsequent slides are mission statements for each sergeant position
Each of those missions is then examined piece-by-piece through some discussion questions and prompts
Those discussions will continue during Cadre and Reconstitution Period training with a mission analysis exercise for each position

4. First Sergeant
The mission of the company 1SG is to advise and assist the company commander, especially through the leadership and supervision of the NCOs in the company, in creating and sustaining an organizational climate in which individual training and readiness, accountability, regulations compliance, good order and discipline, and individual cadet care are accomplished to standard.

5. First Sergeant
The mission of the company 1SG is to advise and assist the company commander, especially through the leadership and supervision of the NCOs in the company, in creating and sustaining an organizational climate in which individual training and readiness, accountability, regulations compliance, good order and discipline, and individual cadet care are accomplished to standard.
What characterizes such an organizational climate?
What aspects of the organizational climate would the 1SG be best equipped to influence and assess?
How would he advise and assist the commander in these areas?
Climate is how members feel about the organization and comes from shared perceptions and attitudes about the unit’s daily functioning. Climate is generally a short-term experience, depending on a network of personalities in a small organization. Culture is a longer lasting and more complex set of shared expectations than climate. While climate is a reflection about how people think and feel about their organization right now, culture consists of the shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterize the larger institution over time. Leaders must establish a climate consistent with the culture of the enduring institution.

6. Drillmaster
The mission of the company drillmaster is to serve as the commander’s subject matter expert on all matters pertaining to drill and ceremonies, to include individual and collective training.

7. Drillmaster
The mission of the company drillmaster is to serve as the commander’s subject matter expert on all matters pertaining to drill and ceremonies, to include individual and collective training.
How do you identify the company’s strengths and weaknesses in this area?
What, beside Thursday parade practices, are opportunities to train drill and ceremony? How do you capture these?
Parade results are posted on the commandant department’s webpage.

8. Supply Sergeant
The mission of the supply sergeant is to execute all tasks associated with the logistical support of the company mission.

9. Supply Sergeant
The mission of the supply sergeant is to execute all tasks associated with the logistical support of the company mission.
What are these tasks? How will you determine them?
How will you interact with the company commander, company XO, company 1SG, and battalion supply NCO?
How will you supervise the armorer?

10. R & D Sergeant
The mission of the company R & D Sergeant is to serve as the company commander’s functional expert on the technical and procedural aspects of the R & D system and to control the administrative aspects of the system for the company

11. R & D Sergeant
The mission of the company R & D Sergeant is to serve as the company commander’s functional expert on the technical and procedural aspects of the R & D system and to control the administrative aspects of the system for the company
The CAS system has greatly reduced the R & D Sergeant’s administrative workload. What should the R & D Sergeant be doing in this new environment?

12. Human Affairs NCO
The mission of the Human Affairs NCO is to assist the HAO in establishing, maintaining, and monitoring an organizational climate that is based on The Citadel core value of respect and to execute her guidance to ensure each individual cadet receives the care and support required by applicable laws, regulations, and principled leadership in areas involving equal treatment and personal crisis.

13. Human Affairs NCO
The mission of the Human Affairs NCO is to assist the HAO in establishing, maintaining, and monitoring an organizational climate that is based on The Citadel core value of respect and to execute her guidance to ensure each individual cadet receives the care and support required by applicable laws, regulations, and principled leadership in areas involving equal treatment and personal crisis.
What are the indicators of an organizational climate that is based on respect? How will you track and report those to the HAO?
What are the indicators that a cadet recruit is receiving the appropriate care and support? How will you track and report those to the HAO?

14. Platoon Sergeant
The mission of the platoon sergeant is execute the platoon leader’s guidance to ensure each cadet is trained and equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge, and behaviors to be individually successful in all four pillars

15. Platoon Sergeant
The mission of the platoon sergeant is execute the platoon leader’s guidance to ensure each cadet is trained and equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge, and behaviors to be individually successful in all four pillars
Where do you go to find out what those skills, knowledge, and behavior are?
How do you train them?
How do you directly supervise your squad sergeants and indirectly supervise your squad corporals in this process?

16. Squad Sergeant
The mission of the squad sergeant is to be holistically responsible for the training, readiness, accountability, and welfare of each cadet in his squad

17. Squad Sergeant
The mission of the squad sergeant is to be holistically responsible for the training, readiness, accountability, and welfare of each cadet in his squad
How do a squad sergeant’s responsibility and a cadet’s individual responsibility intersect?
What does “accountability” mean according to CTM?
Who does the squad sergeant directly supervise the squad corporal in accomplishing her duties?

18. Next
During Graduation Week, all three academies will work together in a series of three practical exercises designed to help companies develop unit SOPs and to help individual cadets practice the skills they learned in their own academy