Posted on Oct 16, 2016
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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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PO2 Wesley Duncan
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Take him aside and explain why he should do as instructed.
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Jeffrey Stokes
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Soap party is everyone have 14 23 hour days of practice due to smart ass
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SFC Jose Ortega
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First I will set him straight and then he will be written up with a recommendation for UCMJ, for disobey a law order and disrispect!
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A1C Mary Butler
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You will do it and do it now and like it! Because you were given a. Order now follow it
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SSG Michael Taylor
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There's a saying " kill em with the pen" keep counseling him and if he wants to stay he will change...if not, let him out
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LCpl Edward Roddy
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Everyone out except you PFC.
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SP6 Carl Clark
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I have him assume the proper position of Parade Rest. Explain to him he has crossed the line into being disrespectful and he will receive a counseling statement and he will be recommended for FAILURE TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS, DISRESPECT TO AN NCO, FAILURE TO PERFORM HIS DUTIES. Then I will tell him his assignment again and if he refuses his counseling statement will reflect he was given a second chance to comply and he failed to follow instructions for the second time as well as his actions are leading toward trying to have others follow his acts of insubordination
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SGT Odis Gaines
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Extra duty.
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LCpl Kirk Seward
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Just start pushing, bends and mother f****** thrust or go out to the back 40 and police your own.
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SN Lewis Oliphant
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Break them down for some PT until they get their head out of their ass
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SGT Mike Ange
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Pvt DA and his team leader stand fast after formation. Opportunity to explain and in the extremely likely event that there is no adequate explanation - nip this in the bud quickly with extra duty and a counseling statement
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SSG Anthony Bozarth
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Tell him that if he doesn't like it then he can change the policy when he out ranks me, and to do it anyway. Then tell him that if he doesn't do as I have instructed him, that he will be reporting to me in front of the First Sergeant.
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SGT Rodney Friedman
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Ask him to correctly breaks ranks and get the fuck out of my army...send him str8 to platoon srg for immediate discharge....because if he acts like this in the states...what u think he gonna do over seas
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SSG Corletta Madison
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I will ensure to have that Soldier standfast, after finishing out what is needed to have the rest of my troops actively engaged I will return to the situation at hand with such Soldier. I will first start by inquiring if the SM had anything pressing going on that the leadership (myself) isn't aware of, whether it be financial, work related, home, substance abuse, alcoholic, etc. If it is such a situation where he/she does, I will ensure to handle it at the same time also ensuring the SM that his/her actions doesn't go unpunished...engage the SM with such a corrective action that he/she won't forget to loose their military bearing again.
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SP5 Matthew Jurkas
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I would smoke his ass
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PO2 Gary Caron
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Slap the puke grass party after then restricted to base
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SrA Mark Cash
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Throat punch..lol
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SSgt Elia Tunupopo
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Line train .
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PFC Ronald Vickery
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Put him/her on report
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PO2 Sean Thornton
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I thankfully only had one instance they got close to this and it was after I had plenty of time in leadership positions.

While underway my partner (undesignated AN) and I were roving the ship and came across a deck seaman chipping paint in a p-way. We always carried ear pro on us and put ours in as we needed to pass through the space. As we did, I noticed the seaman didn't have any ear pro at all, at least he had safety glasses. I tap him on the shoulder as we pass by and signal that he needs plugs or muffs while chipping. He half nods and mouths "whatever ". My partner and I continue on to ththe hangar bay door and wait. My partner steps through and I continue to watch said seaman. He looks up at me and I motion again for him to get hearing protection, he just goes back to chipping. Fast forward, my partner takes some foamies to the kid who motions "no thanks" an we escort the kid to the hangar bay. I'm talking to him and he's just bobbling around looking at the bulkheads, the deck, everywhere except at me. So I brought him back to boot. Back to attention, yes Petty Officer, no Petty Officer, that stuff. We taught him the rank structure again; the chain of command; lawful orders. After that was done, we went and had a friendly chat with this kids LPO, and then the ship She safety LCPO. We brought the entire ship down on this kid. I saw him two weeks later mustering with the restricted sailors for extra duty.
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