Being on time and where you are supposed to be is very important while serving in the army or any other branch of service .The military waste millions of dollars on appointments every year.
Why it is Important to attend and be on time to scheduled appointments
I am writing this essay as a plan of action because I managed to miss a scheduled appointment. Missing a scheduled appointment may seem like a rather minute infraction but if you think about it and trace it back far enough it has a negative impact on all parties involved it effects the army as a whole, the government, tax dollars, every American and possible most of the population of the planet even if they don’t know it or feel an impact from it on some level even if insignificant it effects civilization as a whole. I had an appointment with the Army Substance Abuse Program scheduled for Wednesday the seventeenth of October at one in the afternoon. On this particular Wednesday I was also scheduled for Charge of Quarters duty. These two things were an obvious scheduling conflict and would require someone to sit on the desk for me in order for me to attend the scheduled appointment that was with Army Substance Abuse Program. Regardless of whether this actually happened or not it was my responsibility to make it happen, both for me to have a noncommissioned officer on the CQ desk and for me to attend my appointment. I ultimately failed to attend my appointment and as a result I was negatively counseled for my actions or lack there of. In this counseling I was instructed that my plan of action would be for me to write a five thousand word essay due to the fact that I missed the scheduled appointment and I was instructed that it would be due to be turned in no later than Friday the twenty sixth of October. This is not the first time I have missed an appointment and it is not the first time I have been counseled for it and it is not the first time I have written an excessively long essay because of these...