User error, I was programming way too late last night. My above posted code correctly adds a menu item to the admin bar for subscribers.
I was developing in my dev server and testing the feature on my production server instead of my dev server for some reason. That’s what 3am programming does to you.
Thanks for your help, the current_user_can() function will allow me to use the roles that I will be creating for determining if a certain “subscriber”, or field rep, has access to certain forms or not.