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
Posted 9 y ago
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Take little E2s smartphone and shove it up his ass elbow deep!! Cause you know it's in his pocket
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SGT Marcus Mason
Excuse me Sir but the situation that we are responding to says that "YOU" are the Senior E5. It is your responsibility to deal with the soldier.
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COL Scott Pacello
That's fine. I would sort him out then. I had this happen a couple of times even as an officer with a senior NCO and later a senior warrant doing the same thing. I counseled them. If you have the rank you've got to deal with it.
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It's happened to me before. What I want to do isn't what I should do. We should be able to go blow for blow in the tool room until I show them who's in charge. Now days you have to bow out or they will complain to the upper echelon and then you get reprimanded. I would now tell them if they didn't do it, I would write them up. That's all you can do. Make a paper trail. It really goes nowhere so this is indefinitely ineffective. It's all bullshit really
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SGT Marcus Mason
The paper trail will only not be effective if you let it be. You can't just paper them and then forget about it. I had a soldier that all anyone would do was paper them and roll on. You have to follow it up yourself.
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The proper manner to handle such a situation, would be to have the trooper understand that while wearing this uniform, legal requests are to be obeyed and followed through. That only through team work and unity can the company complete its mission. This is part of the oath the soldier took when he or she was sworn in.
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With military bearing. Enligtnen your soldier of where they are and what responsibilities they have.
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As an NCO I would have quickly corrected it. Now I let other NCOs handle it.
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