Has anyone ever been in a screaming match or any altercation with their superiors?

I recall when our NCOIC, A Staff Sergeant, took all of his Sergeants out back one at a time and read us the riot act about the need to tighten up the shop. All of us just took our turn, and heard him out, not saying a word.......until the last Sergeant went out for his turn. He was the junior Sergeant in the shop, having just been promoted a couple of months earlier. We watched through the window in amazement as the young Sergeant gave as good as he got.....maybe better. When it was over, the Staff Sergeant left the scene without coming back into the shop. The young Sergeant came in and said, "He forgot one thing.......him taking me out back is the same thing as me taking him out back."

I was an e-6,an e-7 from the shop (not in my chain of command)was giving a command briefing. he did not really even know the mos he was grandfathered into. he was dicking it up and giving wrong SIGO info. I tried to correct him by expanding on what he was saying and was shut down twice.i tried multiple times and he was getting irritated with me. we went back and forth a few times and his response was to lock me up at parade rest to shut me up. I looked him in the eye and said I will not go to parade rest so you can give out wrong planning and information. we were face to face at this point.another e-7 grabbed me and took me outside. I composed myself,walked back inside,stood at parade rest and apologized to the room for my unprofessional behavior.

Behind closed doors, yes. NEVER out in the open.

Heated absolutely altercation yes but worked with them and past it.

I have many a times as a private. I'm sure Jt will happen again. Most of the time it's over the group chat and almost leads to physical altercations. But all in all we still love each other and we get over it.

I always used the you're right, I'm wrong tactic.

I'm sure there are a million things I have thought when it comes down to "superiors", but I always grind them down into a monotone "roger".

yeeeep

Yes

I ended up in front of my CSM for a chewing out where he ended up giving me what I still think of as one of the best compliments I've ever received (he didn't intend it as a compliment) I was a young SP5 (E-5) MOS 74F - computer programmer and I had already decided that the Army was not going to be the career for me. Despite that and me only having less than a year left on my contract, they we pushing real hard to send me to PLDC. I saw it as being useless to me, and thought they should give the slot to someone who would make use out of it. They finally came out and said "you ARE going!" So I did some digging in the Regs and found one that I thought applied to my situation. If I was reading it right, I could turn down the course IF I had less that 12 months active duty remaining, AND didn't intend to re-up. However, I wasn't 100% sure I was interpreting it correctly, so in order to make sure I had my ducks in a row, I went to a buddy in Personnel to get his take on it. He agreed with me, but passed me to his SGM, who also agreed with me. Now, I had told the general situation to everyone, but I hadn't mentioned any names. So this SGM, after agreeing with me, says "I have a buddy that knows these regs very well, let me check with him" and he picks up his phone and makes a call: "Hi, I've got the Specialist Cox here and blah, blah blah <tells the story>" He gets a strange look on his face, hangs up, and tells me "Your CSM would like to talk to you" Yes, he'd called my guy. I hustled over to his office and he starts reading me the riot act. One of the things he said was that I was the worst soldier and best programmer he'd ever had working for him. I don't think he expected me to thank him! Once he calmed down a bit, I was able to explain that I hadn't been trying to circumvent the chain of command (which is one reason I hadn't mentioned any names) but simply trying to be sure I was right before coming to him. He eventually relented about PLDC, agreed I was right about not having to go, and stopped bugging me about it. I suspect that had I changed my mind and decided to re-up, that I would have run into difficulties. He was getting ready to retire, but his replacement was already on station and in fact was temporarily working out of my office until he took over, so I knew that my legacy would be intact, even under the new management.