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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Everyone in full gear.... except the E2... everyone in gear low crawls through the mud, and then does pushups until they can't move... the E2 is made to stand at Attention so his fellow brothers can see him, and know that he is the cause for their pain.... the problem will take care of it's self...
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They would do that task as well as many more...maybe all night till they learned ran and ordrr
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"What you're failing to understand is that this is not a request, it is a direct order coming from an NCO, superior to you in rank, stature, mental capacity and physical strength, furthermore failure to comply will result in sever bodily harm the likes of which you have never experienced, followed by required medical procedures to remove my boot from your ass, now move out smartly punk because you're less that 3 seconds away from becoming a medical report!"
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The first thing is to set the pvt straight then make him drop and do push ups afterwards write him up and recommend him for and article 15 and extra duty to go with it and lose some money. That's disrespect to a nco in the us army.
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Correct on the spot! Otherwise he just undermined your authority in front of the division. Punish in private does not apply to an incident of this kind.
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Since your authority was challenged in front of the formation, you should deal with it and set this E2 straight in front of the formation. I would have handled it this way: You have two choices PFC.....you can do the task as assigned, or you can report to the brig.....either one works for me. Which is it?
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