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Show April 23, 1976 HILL TOP TIMES 5 Page Put Someone Else In Your Shoes recent survey conducted among junior officers on Elmendorf revealed that 72 per cent of those contacted feel that the senior officers A DO with whom SOMETHING FOR SMALL BUSINESS! Ma they work do not understand their problems. I doubt that this statistic comes as a big surprise to either the junior officers involved or the senior officers who review it. As I think about it, I don't believe senior officers understood me when I was a young officer either. As a matter of fact, I'm not sure they do now. Further, I suspect that a survey of would show that about the same percentage feel that field-grade- rs don't officers junior understand their problems either. The most obvious approach to counteract this communications gap would be to engineer some situations which would allow senior and junior officers to "walk around in each others' shoes and learn first hand what it is like.' ' What To Do If You Have A Base Accident By Sgt. John Marshall. AlC Pain Temple and AlC Don lloberson What should you do if your privately owned vehicle j involved in an accident that does not cause damage, death or injury to government property? The accident should immediately be reported to the Security Police desk sergeant at ext. 3056. Pertinent information such as identification information should be exchanged by drivers at the scene. If the vehicles can be safely moved from the site, the drivers should report in person to the Security Police desk sergeant at Building 550. At that time drivers will complete a motor vehicle accident report and damage release stickers will be issued. The accident report form must be completed and returned to Security Police within 72 hours or three duty days. In the event the vehicles can't be moved, the drivers should remain at the scene and wait the arrival of an investigating police officer. In case of accident involving injuries or death or damage to government property, drivers should remain at the scene after reporting the accident to the Security Police. Open Mess Managers Needed Sergeants through senior master sergeants who arc qualified and eligible to retrain can join in the management of Air Force's worldwide open mess system. Air Force Military Personnel Center (AFMPC) officials say they arc primarily interested in sergeants, staff sergeants and technical sergeants who have five to 11 years' service and master and senior master sergeants with no more than 16 years' active service. Duties include financial and activity management, administration, and overall program design of open mess systems. The aim is to assure customer satisfaction and operation of an effective program. Application procedures are outlined in AFIt 39-- attachment 5, paragraph 7. Further information and aid In applying is available at Hill AFB's Coasolidatcd Base Personnel Certainly, such programs would be beneficial and would better help promote understanding, but there are some dangers which are worth mentioning. First off, I have to say that I resent being placed into the "senior officer" category with the implied assumption that I have all the characteristics ascribed to that group. I would also hate to attempt to place the junior officers I know into a nice, neat package with the characteristics common to all. accept the fact that today's younger generation grew up under entirely different circumstances from what I experienced, and many of them probably exhibit different values, motivations I and reactions to authority than I would, but I am also Just because I still feel like a juniorofficer, doesn't mean viewing them as individuals. When we do that, we might realize that people don't often fall into handy groupings and do not necessarily mirror the acutely aware that this applies to many of my contemporaries as well. For thfe purposes of this article, though, let's assume that officers can be placed into two groups, junior and senior, and that there is a communications gap between the twoThe first mistake we senior officers usually make is that we think we understand junior officers simply because we were once one ourselves. We then carry that approach one step further and expect the young officer to think and act as we imagine we would have under similar circumstances. When they don't respond as we expect, we lay the blame on them and not where it belongs, on our own expectations. When we expect someone to behave in a certain way, we are really saying "Act as I would if I were in your shoes." The point is that I, as a senior officer (I'm still having trouble with that label ) , can't project myself into a junior officer's - I will ever know what it is like to be one today. At the same time, I don't expect junior officers to understand what it's like to be an aging field-gradwith thinning hair and characteristics we imagine the group to have. We might er begin to see that an individual has a lot to offer as an individual. We also might accept the fact that we don't have to spreading waistline. It is enough, in my opinion, that we see each other as individuals who probably have problems not too different from our own. Without trying to fit neatly into each other's concept of what we ought to be, we can sit with others to "understand" their problems. We could stop trying to make agree live others our to up down and get about the business of working together. expectations, but rather give them room to live up to theirs. V- i!&?fT$ I position without carrying along my own background, prejudices and feelings. What I am is uniquely mine and is not transferrable. When I try to "step into his shoes," I am asking for frustration and disappointment when we still don't see eye to eye. On the other side of the fence, I can't expect the junior officer to step into my shoes either, unless we both are willing to accept that we still will view things probably differently. It seems to me that the key to this situation is to stop mentally placing people into nice neat categories (junior-seniofficers, blacks. whites, Weber Canyon Wheels Open 76 Season m m l 3 QQOO WESTERN SADDLERY 1083 SADDLES No. 1300 or No. Cnoott Iron "Stock" or Oxtn ftopo" Uiku Bold witn S jr. f uJtJMMd Rjliot lite, lull null. trr Ixxst bin md lull daiMt n(Mf. Maaa to Mil for 32!. 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