Dereliction Of Duty Memo

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MEMORANDUM FOR SSgt Alexander Lesch FROM: SrA Romero-Melendez, Jose L. SUBJECT: Response to Letter of Counseling- Dereliction of Duty 1. This letter is in response to the Letter of Counseling (LOC) you served me on 11 May 18. I hope that you will consider the following information and decide to withdraw the LOC or downgrade it to a verbal counseling. I am completely responsible for the incident that occurred on May 6 2018. Not correctly taking the time to inspect the vehicle has led to missed FOD that resulted in a QA fail on my behalf. Leaving a strike against CTK. 2. Over the past month and a halve I have been struggling with many stressors in my life that have been weighing on me constantly. For example, I have just recently failed …show more content…

However, in regards to this incident leading to the perception that CTK personnel are incompetent and that I damaged the integrity of the section, I cannot accept that. This is not the first incident to have happened. Over the past two months alone we have had multiple fails and incidents by multiple different CTK personnel. A1C Faz for improperly storing a torque wrench, SrA Farmer for multiple HazWaste fails for improper documentation, the HazWat storage barrels filled out-of-limits and leaving the HazWat door unsecured. Even NCOIC has failed for leaving the hazardous waste binder in the support truck. I have felt tension from the shop for a while now and I always knew that I wasn’t their favored airman here, but to say that I am the single-point of failure in CTK paints a skewed picture. I think the entire shop can use improvement and training. I was given additional duty for my incident. I had to come in the weekend following my incident and clean and inspect all the vehicles that we have in our possession, create a spreadsheet of our CTK vehicle check-out/turn-in history and I was signed up for a Vehicle Serving class for May 17, 0730 while I am mid-shift. During my vehicle inspection for additional duty, I found two washers in 1 vehicle and rocks and rusted metal in all the other 6 vehicles that I inspected. I reported to my leadership and I have not seen them act as dutifully or diligent to find out where the potential fail root-cause came from as they did with

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