Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Weimer took the service's top enlisted job two months ago. While he's still trying to figure out how best to serve as the enlisted voice in the room during big meetings with the Army secretary, Congress and other key stakeholders, he's already started to roll out a single-word message to the troops that he hopes will be his legacy — “discipline.”
Though it's a term that can quickly get ambiguous and sometimes catch eye rolls from the rank and file, he's been seasoning his remarks with it as he's kicked off his world tour to introduce himself to the force, with stops in Alaska, California, Texas, Poland and Romania.
Weimer is zeroing in on having a buttoned-up Army ready for inspection and war. The rallying cry for his tenure will be “Brilliance at the Basics,” an idea that he's still figuring out how to fully articulate but boils down to emphasizing the basic expectations for the job, like weapons competency and fitness. And he wants those standards to live in every soldier's pocket in an app that will include the regulations he hopes to reinforce.
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“You're going to see us focus on standards and discipline,” Weimer said in an interview with Military.com. “There should be no ambiguity on what the standard is, and there should be no ambiguity on what it means to have the personal courage to…
