Posted on Oct 16, 2016
How would you react to an E2 who "smart mouths" you in formation?
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Here's the background. You're a senior E5. Your troops are in formation and you're handing out work for the day. You hand out an assignment to a fresh E2 with less than a year in and only a few months at your command. They blatantly complain and tell you to choose someone else. You calmly tell them they will do this task and they tell you to shove it and give it to someone else. How do you react?
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in today's army military the correct response would be something to the affect of I gave you an order and you will execute. Then a trip to your supervisor and have discussion with said soldier (assuming you are right)the next higher NCO would hear both sides and explain what is going to occur. Usually that is either, look knuckle head you're in the military execute or you can grandstand and I'll recommend you for UCMJ. Then you get the joy of hoping your commander supports NCOs and doesn't buy the excuse of the insubordination being someone else's fault. As combat arms soldier this didn't happen often and usually the threat of taking free time to ensure the issues were properly addressed by corrective training conducted by me after 1800 or UCMJ was enough. The best way to get compliance is to take time or money, and as an NCO (depending on your command group) time is something NCOs control. As an E5 you can expect to get grown up kids trying to push their boundaries. I would encourage quick action as once you get a person like that in your unit, if you can't get them to do anything, or they refuse to be useful it will cause morale issues when other people have to work harder to compensate for the weakest link.
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Use positive criticism for the lower ranking individual. Assure that he/she understands what is expected of them is not a burden but a detail of learning and knowledge.
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I would calmly give him a page 11 counseling and then e definitely would be pulling duty for a week in the common area; so everybody could see that mouthing off doesn't pay!
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This happened to me. E2 tells me she didn't join the Navy to clean floors. She learned about sweeping parking lot with a toithbrush.
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I'd have to agree with GySgt Pepper, shit rolls down hill and you have to trust in the chain of coomand
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After I'm done with Him, He would be able to join the Olympic Track Team!!!!
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