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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Respectfully dismiss the E2 to a diffetent location, and then render corrective action and punishment in the firm of excersize and cleaning.
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Dismiss the rest of the troops and have him/her stand fast with their first line and allow them to explain if there's no explanation conduct proper paperwork.
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As a junior Marine, E3, I knew if I mouthed off that I was headed straight for a damn knife-hand to the corroded. Even the worst tasks must be handled with a few simple words, "I'm on it, Sargent." Later on you can get out all the "wtf" and "this is BS" rants...
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I would affore him a hand across the face or weekend KP for 3 months and if he says you can not strike me because of military REGS then I say you choose 3 months of KP
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