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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What Would You Do
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You put the fear of GOD into that soldier. That's the only way. These kids have become used to choices. There is no other choice other than what you you platoon, squad, or you team chief tells you have. That have to know this early.
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Depends on when you were in and what the regs were. When I was in, early 70s, a number of things would happen. Anything from the private doing pushups until the Sgt was tired. To repeatedly low crawling under the WWII barracks. This could take all day. To a walk behind the barracks where the E2 got a quick lesson in hand to hand combat.
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The proper response would be to write him up on a article 15 for disobeying a direct order. That is the proper method.
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I recall a few morons trying this. I also recall them loosing Rank and Doing more running and Beating THAT FACE time then anyone. They sure were Strong after it.
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