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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Immediately stand the Pvt. at attention, call for MP, and hold the Pvt (at attention ) till the arrive. Request a dereliction of duty for failure to act on a lawful order.
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Seems to me like a clear cut case of insubordination. In today's world of political correctness and God forbid we use bad language or scream at the scumbag, the best thing to do is ask him if he was serious, or make sure he understood what you were asking of him and if he remains defiant write him up for insubordination. Let the company commander jack him up, take som pay, put him on restriction. This kind of stuff cannot be tolerated even in today's PC military.
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about face to entire group of men standing there with the exception of the E2 and then punch the E2 in the throat or whatever is needed as an Attention Getter
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What happened to an simple order of " Get into the front leaning rest position and stay there until I get tired of looking at you"
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If a lower ranked soldier backtalk a Sargent while I was in they got smoked on the spot.
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Give him a direct order, then inform him he will be facing charges for disobedience of a direct order and conduct unbecoming of a Marine.
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