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You have authoritative and persuasive leadership styles, among many others. These 2 are very effective in their own way. Good leaders try to find the right place fo each one, one requires to give a why to the individual or the "what is in it for me" and the other is more like "do it cause i say so" the way i treat my marines is that sometimes there is no time to explain a why and sometimes there is. My major discipline issues with some of my marines are due to misunderstanding in the issue of orders, some others are because they think they can do it better than you. That happened one time, and i straight up told th LCpl, here you go, these are the tasks to prep for the upcoming field exercise, this is the commanders intent and the whole to do list. When he found put on the spot and how it can be challenging leading people and making people do things they rather not do, they humble down.

So I deal with this too, as soon as said person starts asking questions about anything you tell them to do, either verbally counsel them, or go stright to a paper counseling. Once you have enough paperwork to back it up push for AR15 .

I don't think I can advise any differently than what has already been said...Welcome to NCO Corps!

Sgt, First i suggest talking to the individual to see if problem can be solve, if it doesn't work write him up.

Have honest open talk with him with a senior NCO present about removing chip on shoulder, and give him more responsibilities if he wants them, if he wants to be a SGT send him away to school to make it happen. If that don't work, transfer him to another squad, or company if you can?

wall to wall councling worked for me when I was in, but I retired in 1992 and don't know about now. try sitting him down after duty with a beer and talk about it

you could always ask him if he needs a hug...

What you say also happened in the marine corps infantry circa 2011. What I did was babied my Marines to no end and then EASed in hopes that these incompetent and overly sheltered kids would go to war very soon. I didn't feel like going to the brig for asking from Marines that they police call the barracks on the weekend.

Ask him to go out and catch a snipe for your company as a mascot. that should keep him out of your "hair" for awhile...... and yes there is a bird called snipe.

1st of all, you, set the standard. Be, Know, and Do. Friendship has to be put aside, and be all business in uniform. The SPC must respect the rank. Do some development counseling with the soldier. Tell him what is expected of him, and sign it. After that start taking privileges away and he can do some remidal training.