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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SGT Kelly Wright
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Obviously the PVT needs redirected, sure I'll give the task to someone else while the remainder of the day you flip the woodchips in front of the Battalion so they look new, then write your congressmen and explain your waste of taxpayer dollars.
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Tim Baker
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Whatcha think JerrynKim
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LCpl Kevin Moreland
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If you head strong and that undisciplined the Corp ain't for you. We'd a handled it Marine to Marine. Especially the 03 field. Maybe the "New Marine Corp" tolerates that shit. I've seen Marines change their tune real fast after some go one on one.
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SSG Jeffery Baumgartner
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Let the little shits know that if they wanted to make the decisions for themselves, they should have stayed in the civilian sector of the population. Questioning and indecisiveness can and many times get you killed.
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Sgt Mike J Braun
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They can do it after they give me 250 on the ground
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1LT Delanor Chapman
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Call the MP'S IF he disregards a direct order. The UCMJ has that under control. Let them deal with it. That's their job.
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Sgt Robert Smith
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Smack the dogcrap out of the puke........then make him do every shit detail for a week.
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PO3 Chris Pehrson
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Well, in my time... it would be a slight arm grab, a rib shot, an ear full. Second time, someone be sitting in medic Bay. Job has to be done either way.
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SPC Rian Freeman
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Beat your MF face. And hope to god the medic can get my foot outta your ass.
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SFC John Cancienne
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Unless the order was in some way unlawful, I would release the rest of my team for work detail, then escort this young PV2, (Army PFCs are E-3), directly to the company 1SG, and let him escort this soldier into the commander's office. I can almost guarantee this would result in some form of non judicial punishment, and he could well be finding himself not only doing the original task he was ordered to do, but a couple of weeks extra duty doing something even more distasteful, and some restriction. Not to mention money coming out of his pocket by way of a fine.
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SFC Cavalry Scout
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I would have to take a moment to calm myself.......... Then its time for some corrective training or memory builders....... flutter kicks, front back go, mule kicks. I wouldn't go over board, but when I'm done that soldier would have a light coat of sweat on him!
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SP5 Gary Gerow
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He'd be doing about 50 push ups with me sitting on his back!
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CPT Daniel Glorsky
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Crush it immediately in public. Then UCMJ. CO grade ART 15. If it persists, you can always escalate to FG or chapter
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SPC Luke Loschiavo
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Smack the Shit right out of him!
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Michael Claudio
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I would like to think that a disciplinary measure akin to getting the spit slapped out of your mouth like my mother used to do 8f I got smart with her......which was not often at all. But I can remember that smack to this day and that smack had its desired effect....I listened and did as I was told for the greater good of the household.
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SGT Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear Operations Specialist
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Being in the National Guard, I would have no issue saying "Go to supply and get MOPP gear" and smoke the crap out of them, or as my old squad leader would say, "If you don't want to be here, there's the door." I know the last one is argumentative as a leader, telling a soldier to just leave, but honestly we don't need that type of insubordination in our military. Just my two cents though.
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1SG Dee Ernst
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Install more fear & smoke his ass!
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SSG Don Maggart
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Is he in Formation or a dark Hallway??? Or am I demonstrating a Chokehold or a Throatpunch...??? laffs MilitantCrip
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PO2 Phillip Scott
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Had a Seaman up for 3rd class tell me as a 2nd Class that he was going to sleep and not turn to, asked if he understood that he was being given a lawful order by a senior PO, he said yes and turned over to go to sleep. I wrote him up and we got underway the next day, I did the work he was suppose to do . Two days later he was called before the Chief and told he had Captains Mast that afternoon for disobeying a lawful order. He was reduced in Rank, lost 3 months pay and was on shipboard confinement for 3months. No one in my Division ever again disobeyed an order from any PO after that. This was in 1974. He was upset that I wrote him up but I explained that it was my responsiblilty to have our equipment up and ready to be underway and I could be given a mast for not being sure that we could get underway and I was not going to lose my hard earned rank because he wanted to sleep after noon chow.
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PFC Derek Ivey
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Pull his tongue out and shuv it up his ass. Full blown disrespect to you higher command should be dealt with straight forward discipline (corporal punishment).
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