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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Chuck Harding
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Be the best......
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PO2 Josh Klein
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I agree with gunny
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Sgt Doug Biller
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Take it outside
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Ryan Roark
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Make him do so much pt until he losses his stomach then assign him to do the same job that he didn't want to do for the rest of the term
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CPL Andrew Watson
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Order him and his squad leader to stand fast before dismissing formation. After formation, immediately counsel him on his error in judgment and clearly outline his options. Choose next steps based on his choice whether or not to reconsider. Follow up with his squad leader and issue appropriate counseling or discipline.
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PO2 Jeff Yancey
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Written reprimand for insubordination. Would be folllowed by Captain's mast, and loss of 1/2 a months pay for a few months. Won't tolerate insubordination it will spread through the ranks like a cancer.
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SPC Greg Campbell
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was put in charge of a detail with a PFC and a couple skeeter wings, started the detail and all of a sudden one of the skeeter wings looks at me and says 'your not a NCO, you cant tell me what to do' your right, go lean on the wall and take a break. Top came around the corner shortly and asked me what 'I' was doing. Before I could think of something smart ass to say the PFC tells Top, he told him he wasnt a NCO and cant tell him what to do. Well Top told myself the PFC and skeeter wing to leave. Saw the crute at formation later in the day, dirty, tired, smelly and apologetic. He had the honor of doing stuff for Top that day, under his direct supervision. He never mouthed off to me again. Then a few months later he tried to burn down the barracks
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Danny Tizzles
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I would definitely have him and the other troops dperform exercises as discipline simultaneously I would loudly reiterate the oath they signed when they joined, and values of teamwork, cooperation, and dependability within a military platoon.
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Sgt Seth   Jr. Bailey
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Pull him aside, give him extra duty, write him up,threat him with an article 15., then let the rest of the group decide what to do, & carry it out.
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SSgt Thomas Thompson
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Give the job to the biggest meanest baddest guy in the company and tell him it is compliments of wise as e2. It will likely sort itself out.
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SPC James Todd
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He would get every shit detail that comes up
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LCpl Gary Arsenault
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I was in during the Vietnam era and physical persuasion rarely failed.
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Ed Ellmore
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Make his life a living Hell!
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CPL Frank Dalton
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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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Ora Fincher
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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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TSgt Materiel Management
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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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SGT Scott Weaver
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it wouldn't happen ...most have a lot of respect that I have ran into
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SGT Darren Helfrich
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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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PO1 Machinist Mate (Nuclear Power)
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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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SSgt Gary Andrews
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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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