Posted on Mar 5, 2022
SPC Internment/Resettlement Specialist
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For talking back due to the soldier hearing they can’t be themselves at work?
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GySgt Kenneth Pepper
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If this question is an indication of what you mean by "being yourself", it should absolutely be squashed immediately. And "disrespect" is not a verb. "Being disrespectful" is what you meant.
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Question #1:

If the Soldier in question...if their normal self is acting in a disrespectful manner....acting in a manner that violates good order and discipline....making disparaging comments, crass comments, racial comments, sexist comments....then NO the NCO will not get in trouble for telling the Soldier to stop acting "like themselves."

Question #2:

YES the Soldier can get in trouble for disrespecting an NCO. Read the Uniform Code of Military Justice, specifically Article 91.
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Nothing additional to really contribute here.

No, the NCO in no way will get in trouble for telling a soldier to not be themselves if doing so is in line with making the soldier conduct themselves like a soldier. Even it not the case, I imagine the left right limits of an NCO to reign in the personality of a frictional PVT is going to be pretty broad, and even still if not the case the corrective action is going to be at the whims of the 1SG and Company CO.

So........... if the NCO telling the PVT to not be themselves doesn't fall in the bounds of an EO complaint then I highly suggest the PVT not be themselves while in the presence of soldiers they are not personal friends with.

If TRADOC NCO's would cite the regs more they plan to destroy PVT's with then perhaps PVT's will look up the reg on their phones the moment they get and reinforce that knowledge base.

It used to be disrespect would result in lashings, or spending every waking moment peeling potatoes. Today it's now taking away phones or weekends off post or the ability to wear civilian clothes while off duty (and it takes a judicial process and a counseling statement to execute as such).
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