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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SPC James Atwell
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Court Marshal.
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SPC Scott Schmader
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Totally unacceptable.. He/she would be standing before the man. Insubordination should not be tolerated period.
If you let just one walk over you, it shows weakness. Pfc would be stripping wax, and buffing a lot of floors.
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SSG Jerry Owens
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In my time it would have been some wall to wall counseling. I remember mouthing off to my DI and MCRD SD and I came to seeing nice pair of boots. Time has change. I learn to keep my mouth shout and say yes sir, Need less to say it did something right. I retire with 24 years. These kids just don't care they are in for the money and the time to get help with school.
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CPL Salvator Wendling
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Immediately smoke the shit out of him. It must be made clear not just to him, but to the whole team, that insubordination will not be tolerated.
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SP6 David Alexander
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I'm too behind the times. This was a no call in the early '70s but the military changed and in the late '80's on forward, you couldn't do the same. Now ,what I would do then, would get you busted. It depends on your time frame. So, how do you answer this?
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SP6 David Alexander
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Why did this site show me as a Spec 6? I entered Staff Sergeant. 11B
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Joe Rybicki
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WELL HE HAS ONE TIME TO SAY NO ,THEN I WOULD TELL HIM TO PACK HE SHIT OR DO WHAT I SAD
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Gail Higgins
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S you need to establish your leadership or your all done,what ever it takes within reason,or not.
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Thomas Jones
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LOL I am not in the Military and have never been but I do support you and everything you do. As an older man, I truly regret not serving. That being said, as someone that only worked in the civilian market, I will compare this with life in the civilian sector. Frankly i have had this happen to me as well, in there. My response was, "Get OUT!". If I had had the authority to put them in jail, I might have! LOL As a manager of civilians, I more often got "That is not my job.". I respectfully informed them that their job is whatever the hell I tell them to do! I assume it is much the same in the service! The good news is that you can bring them up on charges for insubordination, and all I could do was fire them!
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SPC William Geary
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Smoke the living crap out of him.
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CWO4 Tim Hecht
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once upon a time the Bosun's Hole (a storeroom for deck related supplies) was operated by a Torpedoman's Mate named Tiny. He certainly was not Tiny in stature. If you were a problem child on of the Petty Officers would send you to see Tiny. If you needed some specialized tool you were send to see Tiny. The difference was in the delivery...of you were sent there for a tool when Tiny asked you needed you got the appropriate tool. If your answer was "Boats sent me to talk to you the thing you saw was the overhead lights cause Tiny was very fast.
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