Riddle me this . . .

Well not much exciting has been happening around here lately.
Is that a good or bad thing?
One thing I am currently having to deal with is that one of my soldiers failed his diagnostic PT test and so now the lieutenant is making me and 2 other NCO's run with him 5 days a week. Now I really dont wanna get into specifics of this, but maybe it will help cause im in a pretty foul mood at the moment. Im not sure why, but I am tired, hungry, and have several things going through my mind all the time and none of them are happy happy joy joy inspiring.

Anyways back during Annual Training in the desert of idaho I was near my 1SGT when he informed someone else that there would be no PT tests during our deployment cause the army was tired of seeing failures. This was good news for us since it would be one less thing to worry about interfering with our mission.

February rolls around and our commander says that we will all be doing a diagnostic PT test. My personal opinion on this is that the commander had been seeing most of us in the gym and making changes in our body shape and in seeing this for a few months was bragging us up higher in his chain of command and decided that a diagnostic was a great way to have numbers to back up his praise.

Now in the mind of the average joe a diagnostic is not a record test and does not require much effort be put into it. Which is exactly what happened and 75% of the unit failed. This set command off and new policy came down that whoever failed must be babysat at the gym 5 days a week and take another PT test every 2 weeks till passing then the restriction would lift but everyone would still have to take a monthly PT test. This pissed the troops off. One really good reason why is because the types of workouts being done to lose body fat and/or gain muscle mass are not ones that help with a PT test, so now everyone is losing momentum on their personal improvement and they all have to take 3-5 days off before the test to give their bodies time to recover and heal from the intense workouts they have been doing in order to be ready to do their best on the PT test.

After a few months of this go by and I would say 95% of the unit is passing now, the commander puts out that if a soldier passes with 70% or better in each catagory(60% is minimum to pass)then they no longer have to do a PT test while they are here. This makes us less angry. So a lot of us kick out our 70% and use that as a big fat finger to command.

Which brings us to the soldier i have to deal with. He has failed every PT test taken and was on the 5 day a week plan up until i left for my R&R. Apparently while i was gone that had been forgotten and not enforced. Well he took another test recently and failed again and this pissed off the LT and in a meeting I wasnt aware of said that all the NCO's in the squad(this includes me) failed and that all of us(me, the 2 other NCO's)must run with the failing soldier 5 days a week till passing which screws up our own schedules for sleep and working out and keeping in touch with family back home. I will say that im glad i wasnt at that meeting cause i would be reduced in rank and pay right now had I been there.

After talking to this soldier about this situation he informs me that his contract with the military is up in November and he will not be re-enlisting and therefor has no disire or motivation to pass and has made this decision long ago. So now we are stuck in a situation that is F'd.

How do you force the horse to drink now that you have him at the river?