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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I'm going to explain ship them out smoke his ass like I said no Prophet has right to question and ncos orders when it comes to that point that private Snuffy can question and then Co that's a breakdown of command I am explaining nothing to him that after I smoked his ass anything other than that pardon my French but your a pussy
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A drop and smoke his ass until he couldn't talk anymore then I get his ass up put his pack on and give him a nice long run to think about it
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I would remind the E2 that as property of the United States military, they no longer have the right to choose what they will or won't do, allow them an extremely brief amount of time to rephrase their jubilation on drawing that particular work detail.
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When he is ready to hit the sack I enter the room and call him out for a night mission. He will be sorry the next day.
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In my days, 1977 post Vietnam era, I'll correct him there dismiss the squad/platoon and have a few words with him pushing the earth/floor down to
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Cpl.USMC Grab his ass by the balls and bring him to his knees. Tell his puke ass if he doesn't do it the worse is yet to come. Semper Fi do or die
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What kind of leader were you? Maybe this pvt has gotten the wrong impression about you because you let others slide. Task and discipline must be consistent. Never had trouble like this in my 12 years in. Sometimes they might get lazy, but taking a weekend for training usually got them back on track
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