Corrective Training Tracker

How to fill out the Leader worksheet (AR 600-20, para 4-6)

AR 600-20 calls extra training or instruction one of the most effective nonpunitive corrective measures. This worksheet documents that the training is related to the deficiency, aimed at fixing it, supervised, and stopped once the standard is met, which is what keeps it training and not punishment. When: After you identify a training deficiency or minor act of indiscipline and have counseled the Soldier on it.

Step by step

1. Write the deficiency as a fact with the date and the standard.
2. Design training that directly fixes that deficiency (for example, a uniform deficiency is fixed by correcting the uniform and instruction on the standard; a missed task is fixed by training the task).
3. Set when it happens and who supervises. It may be after duty hours.
4. Log each session and the result.
5. Stop as soon as the Soldier meets the standard and record the date. Counsel the Soldier on the result.

What a strong one looks like

• Brief physical exercise (for example, push-ups for arriving late to formation) is acceptable for minor acts of indiscipline, as long as it doesn't violate hazing, bullying, or unlawful punishment policy (para 4-6b(1)).
• Deficiencies corrected through training and instruction are not noted in the Soldier's official records (para 4-6b(3)). This is a leader's working record.
• Tell your chain of command. Commanders are expected to watch that corrective measures don't turn into hazing or bullying (para 4-6a).

Common mistakes

• Training unrelated to the deficiency (a weekend of extra duty for a dirty weapon).
• Open-ended training that continues after the standard is met.
• Using corrective training to get around the procedural protections of nonjudicial punishment (para 4-6b(3)).
• Degrading, humiliating, or dangerous tasks. Those are hazing, not training.